Description of the attraction
The Holy Transfiguration Church in Gelendzhik, located in the old cemetery, was built in pre-revolutionary times - after 1909, and acted as a cemetery chapel in the city cemetery, consecrated in May 1904. Since 1917, the Church of the Ascension systematically stopped working, and later, like most churches, it was completely closed. And only in 1952, divine services began to be held in the cemetery chapel.
The chapel was equipped as a temple and consecrated in the name of the Ascension of the Lord. In June 1990, the church was returned to the believers, after which its restoration began. In 1993, the church in the old cemetery was re-consecrated and it was then that it acquired its present name.
With the blessing of His Eminence Isidor, Metropolitan of Kuban and Yekaterinodar, the construction of the northern vestibule and the bell tower began in 1996. In January 1998, a 16-meter tent with a cross and a dome was erected on the bell tower. In 2002, on the site of the sheds and the old kitchen, construction work began on the construction of a children's Sunday school. On September 1, 2005, classes with children began in the newly built Sunday school. In 2007, the central dome was replaced on the church. In 2008, the construction of the memorial chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was completed, after which it was consecrated by the vicar of the Kuban and Yekaterinodar dioceses, Bishop Tikhon.
Currently, 50 students are studying at the Sunday school operating at the Holy Transfiguration Church. The following disciplines are taught at the school: history of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Law of God, singing, drawing, needlework, beading. At Easter and Christmas exhibitions in the city of Gelendzhik, works made by the hands of children are regularly exhibited. In the school building on the ground floor there is a baptistery for baptism of adults and children.
