Description of the attraction
The Vvedenskaya Church of the Svyato-Vvedensky Monastery in Ivanovo is located at 23 Bazisnaya Street. The decision to build this temple was made at a public gathering of residents of the townships of Yama and Ushakovo in 1900. Volkov and E. K. Elin. Later, a construction commission was created, which, in addition to them, also included the peasants M. I. Kiselev, S. S. Voronin, as well as K. F. Knorre, manager of the Sheremetevs' patrimonial office.
The plot for the construction of the church was provided by Count Sergei Dmitrievich Sheremetev, who at that time owned a lot of land in Ushakovo. On May 21, 1901, the ceremony of the solemn foundation of the temple took place. Funds for the construction of the church were raised through private donations. The largest sums were allocated to N. G. and N. Kh. Burylins, the firm "Partnership of P. Vitova's Manufactories with Sons", I. K. Marakushev, M. N. Garelin, I. A. Sokolov and other merchants and manufacturers. In addition, there were also anonymous donations, funds collected by collectives of workers and employees.
In the summer of 1907, the construction was completed, the temple was consecrated by the Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal Nikolai. The main altar was dedicated to the Entry into the Temple of the Theotokos, and two side ones: Nicholas the Wonderworker and Fyodor Tiron. The project of the temple was developed by the Vladimir architect Pyotr Gustavovich Begen, and the construction was supervised by the local architect A. F. Snurilov.
In the design of the facades of the Vvedenskaya Church, motives of Byzantine architecture were used. A three-tiered carved iconostasis was installed in the church, which was made at the expense of N. Kh. and N. G. Burylins in the studio of A. I. Shorokhov. The floor was laid out of colored metlakh tiles with funds allocated by A. I. Garelin. A wooden bell tower was located to the southwest of the temple.
During the period of the construction of the temple, almost all members of the construction commission left it, the work was completed under the leadership of only S. S. Voronin.
In 1909, a two-storey house with a tower was built in the courtyard of the temple, which resembled the boyar chambers of the mid-17th century. It housed a prosphora and watchmen's apartments. In 1912, the territory of the temple was surrounded by a fence with three gates. Towers and chapels were installed at the corners of the fence.
The temple was located on the working-class outskirts of the city, so it was mainly visited by people of poor means and the community had serious material difficulties. Even church utensils and building materials were sometimes purchased on credit. Due to lack of funds, the temple was not painted.
In 1914, the community appealed to the Vladimir spiritual consistory with a request for permission to raise funds for the construction of the bell tower of the Vvedenskaya church. In 1916, the diocesan architect L. M. Scherer completed the project of the brick bell tower. It was supposed to stand on the opposite side of the church from Bolshaya Sheremetevskaya Street (today Engels Avenue). But this place was considered unsuccessful, since the bell tower would have blocked the passage to Bolshaya Sheremetevskaya street from Pogranichny lane. Therefore, the project remained a project. In 1918, Patriarch Tikhon held a service at the Vvedensky Church, who visited the city with a group of clergy (he was canonized by the Bishops' Council in 1989). In 1934, the city council handed over one side-altar of the church for the needs of the renovation community.
The parish of the Vvedenskaya church was quite numerous, on holidays the temple barely accommodated all the faithful, and the number of the renovation community was several dozen people. But, nevertheless, the regional executive committee approved such a decision at the beginning of 1935. And already at the end of the year the temple was completely handed over to the renovationists who came here from other, recently closed churches of the city. But the number of believers in the Renovationist movement in the second half of the 1930s. steadily declined and in April 1938, the Vvedenskaya church was closed because it had not been used for a long time for religious purposes.
In the 1930s. Both the believers and the authorities who initially supported them lost interest in the renovationists, since the renovationists did not succeed in destroying Orthodoxy. The storage of the state regional archive was organized in the church, respectively, the interior decoration of the church was lost.
The attempt to reopen the temple dates back to the war years. This is 1942. But it was not successful. Only in 1989 were services resumed, first in the office building, and in 1990 - already in the church building. The return of the temple was accompanied by quite dramatic events. Four women went on a hunger strike and spent 11 days on the church porch, demanding that the issue of returning the temple to the believers be resolved.
On March 27, 1991, the Holy Vvedensky Convent was opened at the Vvedensky Church. On its territory, the construction of monastic residential buildings began.
