Description of the attraction
The Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" is located on Leontievskaya Street in the city of Pushkin. It is under state protection.
In 1877, the Women's Committee of Tsarskoye Selo created the Community, which was the predecessor of the Red Cross community. It existed until the end of the Russo-Turkish War. In 1899, the Tsarskoye Selo Red Cross Committee was established. The initiator of its creation is General Pyotr Fedorovich Rerberg, the chairman is E. F. Dzhunkovskaya. On February 8, 1908, the Red Cross Committee was transformed into the Tsarskoye Selo Community of Sisters of Mercy, which was under the patronage of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. During the establishment of the Committee, an outpatient clinic was opened under him on Stoesselskaya Street, and when the Russo-Japanese War began, an infirmary for ten places was opened.
In 1908, a two-story wooden building on a stone foundation was erected for the Red Cross Community on Bulvarnaya Street, designed by the architect Silvio Amvrosievich Danini. It had half-timbered walls that were cut through by rectangular windows. At the end of 1908, the new building housed an eight-bed surgical department with a free outpatient clinic.
On June 21, 1912, the rector of the Catherine Cathedral, Afanasy Belyaev, in the presence of Alexandra Feodorovna, laid the foundation stone for the new stone building of the Community. The construction was carried out according to the project of Danini and was completed in 1913. It houses a dormitory for sisters, an outpatient clinic and a church. At the end of the summer of 1914, an infirmary for officers was opened in the building of the Community, on the basis of which the courses for sisters of mercy worked, on which the empress herself and the children were trained. On October 13, 1914, the consecration of the church in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" took place. The ceremony of consecration in the concelebration of the local clergy was conducted by Archpriest Afanasy Belyaev in the presence of the imperial couple - Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna.
In March 1922, the church was robbed. Silver utensils were taken away by unknown criminals. On November 11, 1923, by order of the Petrograd Provincial Executive Committee, the church was closed. Since that time, a tuberculosis sanatorium for children "Druzhba" has functioned here. The stone building housed an X-ray room, a laboratory and other medical premises. The temple was used as an assembly hall. During the renovation of the sanatorium in 1967, a dormitory was located in the church. In the 1990s, the building housed the Prestige company, and in the premises of the former church there was an exhibition hall for the sale of doors. On November 6, 2006, services in the church were resumed. Today, restoration work is underway in the temple, frescoes are open.
The stone building of the temple was built in the traditions of Novgorod medieval architecture. The facades are decorated with arched openings. Roofs are multi-pitched. The church is located in the southern part of the building. Above its entrance there is a panel-icon with a canopy of curvilinear characteristic outlines. Above the southern wall of the church there is a belfry, which is completed by three chapters. The painting of the temple was made according to the sketches of the artist Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov. Sergei Ivanovich Vashkov took part in the painting and decoration of the iconostasis.
