Description of the attraction
The famous Church of St. John the Baptist is located in the southeastern side of the square, which was previously called the Spasskaya Square, on which there were three churches: the churches of Athanasius of Alexandria, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Vsegradsky Savior Cathedral. At the moment, the church is located in the Pushkin kindergarten in the city of Vologda.
The church was previously called St. John the Baptist in honor of the main throne of the cold temple, named in the name of the Beheading of John the Baptist. The second name of the church sounded like "Roshchenskaya", which meant the place where it was previously located - Roshchenie - most likely this name was translated as "grove" in the old days. This zone stretched from the Church of St. John the Baptist and to the south right up to the Church of St. Cyril of Belozersky, which was also called "Roshchenskaya".
The oldest mention of the existence of the Church of St. John the Baptist, while still being made of wood, dates back to 1618. Neither the time nor the reason for the initial development of this temple has survived to this day. Initially, the wooden church built was not called the Forerunner, but the Alekseevskaya, most likely after the name of the original altar, consecrated in honor of the Moscow Metropolitan Alexy (later the altar was moved to a warm and already stone church). It was this name of the church that was mentioned in the temple books, as well as other documents of the 17th and first quarter of the 18th century, up to 1728 - from that time the church began to be called Ioannopredtechenskaya. At that time, the church belonged to the number of the richest and most visited churches in all of Vologda, because the church had 77 parish yards, the number of which exceeded the largest part of the parish churches, and also paid an especially large church tribute every year.
The church was wooden until 1710 and by the end of the 17th century it had three separate buildings with it: two churches - a warm one, consecrated in the name of Metropolitan Alexy and a cold one, consecrated in honor of John the Baptist, as well as a bell tower. During a thunderstorm on May 26, 1698, the church burned down, and the bell tower was cut down during the fire due to its proximity to the church.
The foundation of the already stone church in the name of John the Baptist, with the chapel of the Moscow Metropolitan Alexy, began to be laid on May 23, 1710; the end of the construction of the church, as well as the date of its consecration, are unknown. In 1851, the fence, made of wood and the surrounding church, was completely replaced by a stone one with a pair of small octagonal towers at the western corners and iron bars.
The building of the already built stone Church of the Baptist had two one-story departments: warm and cold, and was also in close connection with the adjoining bell tower. The bell tower itself was attached to the warm section of the building, which in turn adjoined the western part of the wall of the cold section of the church building. Until 1856, the church bell tower was low and had a hipped roof top. This year, parishioner Ledentsov allocated funds for the alteration of the bell tower, which was dismantled and largely built on, and the church hip top was replaced by a new one with a high spire with a pointed end.
In the cold part of the church of John the Baptist, there was a throne consecrated in honor of the Beheading of John the Baptist, the ancient dispensation of which dates back to the reign of Ivan the Terrible, in honor of the namesake, which was usually celebrated in the summer of August 29.
The church frescoes, judging by the surviving fragment on the southern wall of the temple, date back to 1717, but their author is unknown. According to stylistic and iconographic features, many researchers believe that the authors of the paintings were Yaroslavl masters. The dome of the church depicts "Fatherland", and on the octagonal vault there is an illustrative series of the "Symbol of Faith". The registers of the walls located at the top are dedicated to the pictures of the earthly life of Christ, and below is the composition of the apostolic acts, containing scenes of the torment and death of all the apostles for their Christian faith. The restoration of the frescoes was carried out in the years 1856-1859.
Reviews
| All reviews 3 Inga 2014-22-03 12:38:28 PM
Photos do not match the text Good day! About the Church of John the Baptist in Roshchenye it is written in detail and well. But … The photographs have nothing to do not only with the Church of St. John the Baptist, but also with Vologda itself. Attached are photographs of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery - its part is the Small Ivanovsky Monastery. One gets the impression …
