Description of the attraction
The Kalitnikovskoye cemetery is one of the "plague graveyards" founded outside Moscow in the second half of the 18th century. In 1771, a terrible plague epidemic broke out in Moscow, during which the city authorities forbade burying the dead within the boundaries of what was then Moscow. Behind the Kamer-Kollezhsky shaft, seven churches were founded, at which "plague graveyards" were created.
One of these churches was the church, now called the temple of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of all who sorrow." The first church on this site was built in the early 70s of the 18th century, and, since it was wooden, it quickly burned down. The next church was erected in 1780 and was consecrated in honor of the Bogolyubskaya Icon of the Mother of God. In the 30s of the XIX century, a stone church was built on this site, which has survived to this day. The architect Nikolai Kozlovsky became the author of the current appearance of the church, and at the end of the same century another architect Ivan Baryutin designed its interior. Then the reconstruction of the church was carried out.
In the 30s of the last century, the church passed into the hands of the so-called "renovationists" - priests who supported the Soviet regime and demanded the renovation of the church. The Soviet government treated its supporters from Orthodoxy very harshly - many of the "renovationists" were arrested and shot. This church was returned to the Moscow Patriarchate in 1944.
In addition to the main chapel (the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow"), the church has two more, named after Alexander Nevsky and St. Nicholas. The relics stored here include the icon "Joy of All Who Sorrow" and the icon with forty particles of the relics of various saints (located in the altar). Next to the church is the grave of blessed Olga.
