Description of the attraction
The current Church of the Presentation of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God was built in 1785 (but its history is almost 800 years old). For the first time it was erected on the banks of the Klyazma River at the behest of Andrei Bogolyubsky. The reason for the construction of the church was the meeting of the icon of the Vladimir Mother of God (meeting), which was transported from Bogolyubov to the Assumption Cathedral. It was in this place that the prince met the icon, accompanied by the clergy and with a huge crowd of people. In memory of this, a wooden temple was built.
In 1237 the Mongol-Tatar troops burned down the Sretenskaya church. After that, it was not restored for a long time, it begins to be mentioned again only from 1656. Later, the renovated and rebuilt temple is found already in the documents of the second half of the 17th century. During this period, he was attributed to the Assumption Cathedral, but in 1710 his own priest conducted services in the Sretensky Church.
By the beginning of the 18th century. on the site of Streletskaya and Gatilova Sloboda, Soldierskaya Sloboda began to populate, and since they did not have their own temple, the locals went to the nearby Kazan and Peter and Paul temples. The Peter and Paul Church burned down after some time, and the Kazan and Yamskaya Sloboda were moved out of town. Left without a church, the inhabitants of the Soldier Sloboda, in 1784 were forced to ask the Bishop of Vladimir and Murom to transfer the wooden dilapidated Nativity of Christ Church to the settlement. The request was granted, but the Sretenskaya church was moved to the settlement from the bank of the Klyazma. By the spring of 1785, the temple was dismantled and erected in the Soldier's settlement. In 1788, a warm church in the name of the Meeting with an iconostasis brought from the abolished Pokrovsky Monastery was added to the temple.
By the beginning of the 19th century. Sretenskaya Church remained the only wooden church in the city. In 1805, the parishioners of this church submitted a petition to the spiritual consistory for permission to build a stone church. In 1805, permission was obtained. While the stone church was being built, services were going on in the wooden church. In 1807, the chapel in honor of the Meeting of the Lord was already consecrated, in 1809 - the main altar in the name of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God. At the same time, a bell tower was built, crowned with a spire.
The church was not distinguished by any special luxury or wealth. The liturgical utensils were made of copper; only the altarpiece of the Mother of God, which was decorated with small pearls, was of value. In 1829, the plank roof of the Sretensky Church was replaced with an iron one, the head above the cold temple was gilded, as well as small domes at the end of the bell spire and above the chapel. At the same time, the three-tiered "smooth" iconostasis was replaced by a new carved one. In the warm church, the iconostasis was replaced in 1834. In 1830-1832. the walls of the chapel were decorated with sacred paintings, and 10 years later the Yaroslavl tradesman Mikhail Shvetsov painted the cold church.
In 1866 the northern side-altar was built, its altar was consecrated in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow".
According to the inventory of 1809, there were 4 bells on the belfry, the largest of which weighed 424 kg. In 1816 the bell was replaced. But in 1817 this bell was removed and replaced with an even heavier one (1084 kg). In 1875 a bell of 100 poods was installed, the previous one was broken. This bell hung on the belfry until the October events of 1917.
The first blow to the church was struck in April 1922, when silver church utensils weighing 26 kg were seized. In November 1923, the church community consisted of 148 people. Divine services were held regularly, although permission had to be obtained to hold them.
March 7, 1930The Sretenskaya church was closed with the aim of transferring it to the residents of the Red Town and the Soldier's Sloboda for a cultural and educational institution. Parishioners defended the church, writing a complaint to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the church was left to the community. Another attempt to close the temple was also unsuccessful.
Until the very last days in the church, M. S. Belyaev, who had been its rector since 1888. Father, together with the parishioners, prevented the closure of the church, but, nevertheless, on April 29, 1937, the church was closed. The defiled temple was both a warehouse and a woodworking enterprise.
More than half a century after it was closed in 1992, the church was again returned to the Russian Orthodox Church. Today it is a working temple of Vladimir.
