Dear brothers and sisters! Help build a temple for Fr. Alexander Katunin, who served in the Trinity Church on Vorobyovy Gory for more than 20 years, first as an altar server, then as a deacon and priest.

The temple will be named after the icon Mother of God « Burning bush", address: Moscow, Michurinsky Avenue (Olympic Village), opposite the owner. 15, on the shore of the Bolshoi Ochakovsky Pond.

The temple will have its own account in a few months, but in the meantime you can donate to the construction of the Burning Bush Temple through the account of the St. George Church in the village. Gorki-10:

Local religious organization Orthodox parish St. George's Church in the village. Gorki-10 Odintsovo district, Moscow region, Moscow diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church

VTB-24 (CJSC), Moscow

TIN 5032187248

Gearbox 503201001

account number 407 038 101 000 000 00 035

case No. 301 018 101 000 000 00 716

BIC 044525716

OGRN 108 500 000 2526

OKPO 86643291

OKVED 91.31

OKOPF 83

OKFS 54

OKATO 46241840005

143032 Moscow region, Odintsovo district, Gorki-10 village.

It is necessary to indicate the purpose of the payment: “Donation for the construction of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Burning Bush”. NDS is not appearing."

If you do not write the purpose of payment, the donation will go to St. George's Church in the village. Gorki-10.

Phone o. Alexandra Katunina: 8-910-415-13-87.

03/21/2014

The famous church in the name of the Burning Bush icon of the Mother of God, which has not survived to this day, was located before the revolution near Smolensky Boulevard, on the New Konyushenny Dvor and left the names of the local Neopalimovsky lanes. It was the first and only church in Moscow consecrated in the name of this image of the Mother of God.

The name of the icon “Burning Bush” comes from the biblical story about the miraculous vision of the prophet Moses of a burning thorn bush - bushes, - engulfed in flames and not burned in the fire. From this flame he heard the Voice of God, which announced to him the coming deliverance of the Jewish people from Egyptian slavery (even the feast of the icon is celebrated by the Church on the same day as the celebration of the prophet Moses). This naming of the image of the Mother of God symbolizes Her likeness to the Burning Bush, recalling Her Birth of the God-Man and Her Ever-Virginity.

The Most Holy Theotokos is depicted on the icon surrounded by flames, with the Infant Christ, in the center of an Orthodox eight-pointed star, formed by combining red and green diamond squares. The four green ray ends symbolize the bush, the thorn bush, which preserved its green color, four red ray ends - the flame of a burning and unscorched bush. On some image lists the letters A.D.A.M are written at the ends of the rays. - according to ancient legend, the Archangels composed the name of the first man from the first letters of the names of the stars, taken by Them from the four cardinal directions. Archangel Michael took the letter “A” from the east on behalf of the eastern star “Anatoli”, Archangel Gabriel - the letter “D” from the west from the star “Disis”, Archangel Raphael - the letter “A” from the northern star “Arktos”, and Archangel Uriel - the letter "M" from the southern star "Messembria".

The Mother of God as the Queen of Heaven is depicted in the center of the icon. In Her Hands is a ladder as a symbol and path of Christian salvation, and as a symbol Holy Mother of God, - The ladder along which God descended to earth, and man ascends to Him. And in commemoration of this, in the four corners of the icon, Old Testament prophecies about the Incarnation of Christ are symbolically depicted: Moses’ vision of a burning bush, where in its center is written the icon of the Mother of God “The Sign” with the Child in her womb, the vision of the “gate” to the prophet Ezekiel, the famous vision to the prophet Isaiah of Seraphim with the burning charcoal, the symbol of Christ, and the “Root of the Tree of Jesse.” The last image symbolizes the prophecy of Isaiah: “instead of the thorn the cypress will grow... as an everlasting and indestructible sign.” At the corners of the red quadrangle are depicted the apocalyptic symbols of the holy Apostles-Evangelists - Angel (Matthew), Eagle (John), Taurus (Luke) and Lion (Mark).

Together with the Christian Apostles, all the Heavenly Powers, subject to the Queen of Heaven, surround Her on the icon. In medieval legends, angels controlled the heavenly bodies and elements (thunder, lightning, wind, rain, frost). And each angel depicted on the icon holds in his hands a symbol of his element, such as a cloud, a sword, a cup, a torch, a closed ark (frost), a figure (wind). This also means the church’s idea of ​​natural disasters sent down by the Mother of God on the atheists, which can be warded off by prayer to Her and Her mercy and help revealed.

Since ancient times, this icon of the Mother of God has been revered as a miraculous protector from fires and thunderstorms. At Sinai, a special rite of service to the miraculous image was compiled, performed during a strong natural disaster when “lightning can be scary.”

The Burning Bush icon came to Rus' in 1390, when Palestinian monks from Sinai brought it to Moscow. It was soon placed in the newly built Kremlin Annunciation Cathedral, and later the list appeared in the royal Holy Seine at the Faceted Chamber. Having an icon, revered as a protector from fires, was vital for wooden Moscow, but the first throne in the name of the Burning Bush was consecrated only in 1648 after another big fire in the Russian capital. Then they decided to build a temple in the name of this icon on the burnt-out Malaya Dmitrovka. For a long time there stood the wooden Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, which also burned down in a fire. However, since previously there had been no dedication of churches to the Burning Bush in Rus', they decided to build a stone church with the previous consecration of the main altar in the name of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, and with it to build a new chapel in the name of the Burning Bush. Patriarch Paisius of Jerusalem himself asked Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich about this. The Emperor agreed and ordered money to be given for the construction of a church with a chapel of the Burning Bush, the very first in Moscow and in all of medieval Russia. It was consecrated in 1652.

Very soon a temple in the name of the Burning Bush appeared in Moscow. It was built in 1680 in Novokonyushennaya Sloboda, near Zubovsky Boulevard, where at that time the Tsar’s Stable Yard moved from the Arbat area, and where a settlement for the palace grooms was established. It is interesting that the courtyard of the royal grooms was transferred here after another big fire that happened on its former territory between Arbat and Prechistenka (the name of Starokonyushenny Lane now reminds of it there).

However, the foundation of the Neopalimovsky Church was not connected with this fire, but with the legendary miraculous salvation of the boyar Dmitry Koloshin, the royal groom, innocently condemned before Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich, the elder brother of Peter I. Then in the Kremlin, in the Holy Entrance near the Faceted Chamber, the miraculous image of the Burning Bush was placed , and the boyar often prayed before him. Innocently convicted, he again turned in tears to the icon for help. His prayer was heard. The Mother of God appeared in a dream to Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich and declared the innocence of the convicted boyar. The next morning, the frightened Tsar ordered Koloshin’s case to be reconsidered, found him innocent and released him. Saying goodbye, the saved boyar asked the tsar for an image of the Burning Bush from the vestibule of the Faceted Chamber and decided to build a temple in her honor in Moscow, in his New Stable Yard, with the blessing of the patriarch and the petition of new parishioners. So the newly built church became a parish for the settlement of the royal grooms who settled near it.

Since then, according to historical evidence, in the parish of the Neopalimovskaya Church, built mainly wooden houses There were almost no fires. When a fiery disaster occurred in Moscow, the temple image of the Burning Bush was carried with a procession around the houses of parishioners, and they remained unharmed.

In 1707, the church was built in stone using voluntary donations - they managed to erect stone buildings in Moscow before Peter the Great's ban of 1714. Since then, the church has never been rebuilt, although later chapels were built in the name of St. Evangelist Mark and St. Demetrius of Rostov. Until 1771, a religious procession was made into it from the Assumption Cathedral in memory of the fact that the revered image of the temple was originally located in the Kremlin in the royal chambers. It is known that in addition to the Burning Bush, the Moscow church also housed a particularly revered image of the Mother of God “Unexpected Joy”.

And in 1812 another miracle was revealed from her. That fiery autumn, a Napoleonic soldier came to the archpriest of the Novodevichy Convent and returned to him a silver chasuble stolen from the icon of the Burning Bush from the Moscow church in Novokonyushennaya. He told the priest that since he stole this robe, he began to be tormented by terrible melancholy. After the expulsion of the French, the archpriest returned the chasuble to the Neopalimov Church.

In 1892, the Elizabethan Committee, one of the institutions of St. Elizaveta Fedorovna, where poor parents were helped with money to raise their children. The Elizabethan Society was created in the same year under the patronage of the Grand Duchess and on the initiative of the manager of the Moscow Orphanage to organize assistance to poor families and children. The Society was faced with such tasks as ensuring the feeding of infants in the event of the absence or illness of the mother, organizing orphanages, education and professional education children of the poor, the establishment and maintenance of so-called “children's centers”, that is, a nursery where parents could leave their children for the whole day if they were forced to go to work. Such a nursery was opened by the Society in Stoleshnikov Lane, in the private house of the merchant Karzinkin, on own funds. Among the benefactors were the Grand Duchess herself, the Yusupovs, Knops, and Morozovs.

Only after the October Revolution, the new government decided to destroy the Moscow temple - for the sake of the triumph of the ideology of godlessness and for the sake of building in its place in a prestigious area a residential building for the cooperative partnership of the Supreme Economic Council. In 1928, by decision of the Moscow City Council, the temple was closed and demolished in 1930.

A chapel in the name of the Burning Bush also existed in the Church of St. Clement of Rimsky in Zamoskvorechye.

Icon of the Mother of God “BURNING BUSH”

Icon of the Mother of God “Burning Bush” - one of the most complex in composition and symbolic interpretation of the Mother of God icons. This icon depicts the Mother of God through one of Her Old Testament prototypes - the burning bush, i.e. the unburnt bush in which God appeared to Moses.

According to the book of the Old Testament "Exodus", when the people of Israel were still in Egyptian captivity, Moses, tending sheep, led his flock far into the desert and came to the mountain of God Horeb, which today is called Sinai, or also the mountain of Moses, since on this mountain God gave the prophet the Ten Commandments.

Moses saw the Angel of the Lord appearing from the middle of a thorn bush, which was burning, but was not consumed, and went to see this miracle. And then he heard the voice of God, telling him not to come close and to take off his shoes, for Moses was standing in a place that was holy land. The Lord spoke with Moses for a long time about his destiny - to lead the people of Israel out of Egyptian slavery. He awarded him the gift of miracles and prophecy, and since Moses did not have the gift of eloquence necessary to proclaim the word of God, God appointed Moses' brother Aaron as his assistant.

St. Catherine's Monastery is one of the oldest continuously operating Christian monasteries in the world. Founded in the 4th century in the center of the Sinai Peninsula at the foot of Mount Sinai (biblical Horeb)

On the Sinai Peninsula, at the foot of Mount Sinai stands St. Catherine's Monastery , founded in the 6th century. Neither Muhammad, nor the Arab caliphs, nor Napoleon began to destroy this monastery, which was never closed. Its inhabitants are Greek Orthodox monks. A bush of this amazing plant still grows there.

On the territory of the monastery grows the Burning Bush - a bush, in the flames of which, according to Old Testament, God first appeared to the prophet Moses. It is believed that this is the only thorn bush of its kind in the entire Sinai Peninsula...

According to legend, this is the same one Burning Bush bush . This plant has amazing biological features. Botanists classify it as a member of the Rutaceae family. Russian name- ash tree, found over a vast territory from the Mediterranean to the Far East, in particular in the Crimea. Its leaves and trunk are dotted with glands that evaporate essential oils. If you bring a light to it when the weather is clear and windless, it will flare up stronger and seem to run along the branch without causing damage to it. This is the only bush of its kind in the entire Sinai Peninsula, and not a single attempt to plant its shoot elsewhere was successful!

In 324, Emperor Constantine's mother Helen ordered the construction of a chapel on the site of the burning bush. The altar of the monastery cathedral is located just above the roots of that same burning bush. Behind the altar - Chapel of the Burning Bush .

The bush was transplanted a few meters from the chapel, where it continues to grow. There is no iconostasis in the chapel, which hides the altar from the faithful, and pilgrims can see under the altar the place where Kupina grew. It is marked by a hole in a marble slab, covered by a silver shield with chased images of a burning bush, the Transfiguration, the Crucifixion, the evangelists, St. Catherine and the Sinai monastery itself.

Pilgrims enter this Holy place without shoes, remembering the commandment of God given to Moses: “Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground.”(Exodus 3:5). The chapel is dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, and some of the icons hanging in it are painted on this theme.

Theological interpretation

Burning bush. End of the 18th century Moscow. Epiphany Cathedral. At the bottom of the icon are the words from the troparion and the date of renewal: “The imams have no other help. The imams have no other hope than You, the mistress. Help us, we rely on You and we boast in You. We are Your slaves. Let us not be ashamed. Renewed in April 1835 Day 2."

In the New Testament, the Burning Bush and the events associated with it received a new, deeper theological interpretation. This is a very important parallel - we honor the Mother of God with the Burning Bush, as the Unmarried Bride - by Her immaculate conception from the Holy Spirit, bringing fiery Light. The same Divine Light shone around Her Son on the sacred Mount Tabor, as it once did around the burning bush on the sacred Mount Sinai, when God the Father spoke from it to Moses, because another former name of the monastery of St. Catherine was Transfiguration.

She lived her entire earthly life before her Dormition in divine purity, unburned by that Divine flame, about which Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh once said that “God imparts combustion, but does not feed on matter” and preserves the integrity of the spiritual and physical of that which this flame touches . She accepted the Holy Spirit into Herself, and found herself untouched by His flame, which burned away every impurity, for God was in Her.

Iconography

The meaning of the Burning Bush icon lies in its iconography. This is a truly cosmic-sounding image. It sums up the Orthodox concept of the Mother of God-Church-Sophia in all the beauty of Her timeless and universal significance.

The plot of the icon is based on a church hymn, where the Mother of God is compared with the Burning Bush, which Moses saw on Mount Horeb (Ex. 3: 1-5). The burning bush is a bush engulfed in flames, but not burnt, interpreted by theologians as prototype of the Mother of God and the incarnation of the Son of God.

That same burning bush can be seen with difficulty, but in right hand Mother of God; there is also a stone, a ladder, and a mountain with the Heavenly Jerusalem, behind the walls of which Christ is depicted in the royal crown. Several Old Testament images are used here, almost all of them are further revealed in the scenes presented along the edges of the icon.

The image has been known since the early centuries of Christianity. Initially, the “Burning Bush” was depicted as a burning bush with an image of the Mother of God enclosed in it (usually in the type of the Sign or Oranta) and the prophet Moses kneeling in front of it.

Later, already in the 16th century, a rather complex symbolic and allegorical image was formed in the form of an octagonal star surrounding a half-length image of the Mother of God and the Child Christ.

The center of the composition is an oval medallion with the image of the Mother of God - Hodegetria the Guide. On Her chest is often depicted a ladder, which the holy patriarch Jacob saw, leading from earth to Heaven itself. She is also associated with the Mother of God, who is Herself - the ladder along which the path to heaven is laid. Here we see an image of the chamber as the home of the Infant Christ. Four green rays indicate a bush, i.e. bush, four red rays - the red flame of a burning bush. On some icons of the “Burning Bush” the letters A.D.A.M are added to the ends of the outer rays. This detail is based on a Greek legend, according to which the Archangels compiled the name of the first person according to stars taken from the four corners of the world: Archangel Michael - from the East the letter “A” from the star “Anatoli”, Archangel Gabriel - the letter “D” from the Western star “Disis” ”, Archangel Raphael - the letter “A” from the Northern star “Arktos” and Archangel Uriel - the letter “M” from the Southern star “Messembria”.

The rays of blue (or green) color depict the service of the angels to the Mother of God and the worship of the heavenly powers to the miraculous birth of God from the Virgin. She is surrounded by archangels and angels of the elements: thunder, lightning, dew, wind, rain, frost and darkness. Each angel holds a corresponding “attribute”, such as a cup, a lantern, a cloud, a sword, a torch, a closed ark (frost), a naked figure (wind). The number of angels and their distribution around the Mother of God varies according to the choice of the icon painter. The angels of the luminaries and heavenly elements are taken from the Apocalypse, which lists the angels of stars, clouds, lightning, hail and earthquakes. The symbols of the holy evangelists mentioned in the Apocalypse are usually written in the fiery red rays: Angel (Matthew), Lion (Mark), Taurus (Luke) and Eagle (John). Around the stars in two-petalled clouds are the angels-spirits of Wisdom, Reason, Fear and Piety; Archangels: Gabriel with a branch of the Annunciation, Michael with a rod, Raphael with an alabaster vessel, Uriel with a fiery sword, Selafiel with a censer, Barachiel with a bunch of grapes - a symbol of the Blood of the Savior. Above is the Old Denmi, below is Jesse (or the tree of Jesse - like the genealogy of Jesus Christ). In the corners of the composition there are visions of the prophets: in the upper left - Moses' vision of the Burning Bush in the form of the Mother of God of the Sign in a burning bush, in the upper right corner - Isaiah's vision of Seraphim with a burning coal in tongs, below, on the left - Ezekiel's vision of the closed gates, on the right - Jacob's vision - stairs with angels.

The Mother of God gathered the whole world around the Eternal Child - the forces of earth and heaven. It is precisely this, collected together, that God conceived of the Universe in His Wisdom; it is with this that the chaotic, centrifugal forces of death and decay must be defeated. Thus, another image appears next to Kupina - the image of Sophia, the Divine will, the Creator’s eternal plan for creation.

Miraculous images

One of the most ancient icons of the Mother of God known in Rus', the “Burning Bush” was brought to Moscow by Palestinian monks in 1390 and, according to legend, was written on the stone of the rock where Moses saw the mysterious bush. This shrine was placed in the altar of the Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. The icon is credited with the miraculous power of protection from “fiery scorching” fire. In Sinai, the service to the icon is sung during severe thunderstorms; in Russia they surrounded the icon during fires, protecting neighboring buildings from fire.

Another miraculous image, also coming from the Kremlin, from the Holy Hall of the Faceted Chamber, was kept in Moscow Church of the Burning Bush in Khamovniki , destroyed in 1930, of which only the name remains in the name of Neopalimovsky Lane. Her story is connected with the following legend. Tsar Feodor Alekseevich's groom, Dimitri Koloshin, a wealthy man, especially respected the icon of the Mother of God of the Burning Bush, which stood in the holy vestibule of the royal Palace of Facets, and every time he came to the palace and left, he prayed fervently before it; finally he wished to build a temple in her name on the next occasion. One day, having innocently fallen under the wrath of the tsar and not hoping to justify himself before him, Koloshin began to pray with even greater zeal before the icon of the “Burning Bush,” asking the Queen of Heaven to protect him; the prayer was soon answered. The Mother of God appeared to Tsar Feodor Alekseevich in a dream and declared the groom innocent; the tsar ordered Koloshin's case to be investigated and, finding him innocent, released him from trial and returned his former disposition towards him. In gratitude to his Deliverer, Koloshin begged the Tsar for an icon of the “Burning Bush” and built a temple in her name.
When there was a strong fire in Moscow, this icon was carried around the houses of the parishioners of the Neopalimovskaya Church, and they all survived the fire. In general, those living in this parish noticed that there were very rarely fires in it, and even those were very insignificant, despite the fact that this place was built up mainly with wooden houses.

Amazing event with the chasuble of this icon . In 1812, the French kidnapped her. Before they left Moscow, he came to the priest of the Novodevichy Convent, Fr. A Polish soldier gave Alexy Vvedensky the chasuble from the Burning Bush icon, asking him to return it to the church from where it was taken. The soldier admitted that since he stole the robe, he could not find peace and was tormented by unbearable melancholy.

In 1835, another image of the “Burning Bush” was donated to the church in Khamovniki. It depicted a man kneeling in prayer before the Mother of God. An ancient handwritten service to the “Burning Bush” was also kept in this temple, with an explanation that in Sinai there is a custom to sing this service during a strong thunderstorm, “when lightning is terrible.”Along with the disappearance of the temple, these shrines were also lost.

In modern times, the miraculous image of the “Burning Bush” became especially famous after the events of 1822 in the city of Slavyansk, Kharkov diocese. That year, powerful, devastating fires from arson began to occur in the city, but numerous attempts to discover the arsonist were fruitless. Once upon a time, a pious old woman named Belnitskaya was revealed in a dream that if the icon of the Mother of God “The Burning Bush” was painted and a prayer service was served in front of it, then the fires would stop. The icon was immediately painted the best masters, and after the Liturgy a prayer service was performed before her. On the same day, a new fire broke out, in which the arsonist, the crazy girl Mavra, was detained. After this, the fires stopped, and the grateful residents of Slavyansk built an expensive icon case for the Burning Bush icon with the inscription: "In memory of 1822 for saving the city from fire." Since then, the veneration of the icon, and especially its Slavic copy in the Resurrection Church, has strengthened in this region and far beyond its borders. On September 12, 2008, the President of Ukraine signed a decree establishing a new professional holiday - the Day of the Rescuer of Ukraine - on the day of the celebration of the Burning Bush icon of the Mother of God.

Before the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “The Burning Bush” they pray for deliverance from fire and lightning, from severe troubles, and for the healing of ailments.

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Troparion, tone 4
Who in the fires of the burning bush, / seen in ancient times by Moses, / prefigured the mystery of His incarnation from the Virgin Mary who was not made of art, / who is now like the Creator of miracles and the Creator of all creation / Her holy icon glorified with many miracles, / bestowing it on the faithful for the healing of illnesses / and in protection from fire ignition. / For this reason, we cry out to the Most Blessed: / Hope of Christians, deliver those who trust in You from cruel troubles, fire and thunder, / and save our souls, // like the Merciful.

Troparion, voice of the same
In the bush, burning with fire and unburnable, / showing Moses Your Most Pure Mother, Christ God, / who received the fire of the Divine without burning in her womb / and remained incorruptible after the Nativity. / With your prayers, deliver us from the flames of passions / and save Your city from fiery incinerations, // for You are Most Merciful.

Kontakion, tone 8
Let us purify the feelings of our souls and bodies, / so that we may see the Divine sacrament, / figuratively revealed to the great prophet Moses of old by the bush, / which burned with fire and was not consumed, / in the same of Your seedless Nativity, Mother of God, / we confess the foretelling and, reverently worshiping You / and the One who was born from You I will save ours, with fear we cry out: Rejoice, O Lady, protection, refuge, and salvation of our souls.

Prayer of the Mother of God before the icon of Her Burning Bush
Oh, Most Holy and Most Blessed Mother of our sweetest Lord Jesus Christ! We fall down and worship You before Your holy and most honorable icon, with which You have performed wondrous and glorious miracles, saving our homes from fiery flames and lightning thunder, healing the sick, and fulfilling every good request of ours for the good. We humbly pray to You, Omnipotent Intercessor of our race, to grant us the weak and sinners Your maternal participation and care. Save and preserve, O Lady, under the shelter of Your mercy, the Holy Church, this monastery, our entire Orthodox country, and all of us who fall to You with faith and love, and tenderly ask with tears for Your intercession. She, the All-Merciful Lady, have mercy on us, overwhelmed by many sins and not having boldness towards Christ the Lord, ask Him for mercy and forgiveness, but we offer to You for supplication His Mother according to the flesh: But You, All-Good, Extend Your God-receiving hand to Him and intercede for us before His Goodness, asking us for forgiveness of our sins, a pious, peaceful life, a good Christian death, and a good answer at His terrible Judgment. At the hour of the terrible visitation of God, when our houses are set on fire, or we are frightened by lightning thunder, show us your merciful intercession and rusty help: may we be saved by your omnipotent prayers to the Lord, the temporary punishment of God here, and we will inherit the eternal bliss of paradise there: and with all the saints let us sing the Most Honorable and Magnificent Name of the worshiped Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and Your great mercy and mercy towards us, forever and ever. Ah min.

Program from the series "SANCTIES" - THE BURNING BOOK.

How to get a project

The mechanism for using the project for the construction of a temple complex in your diocese:

1. It is necessary to send to the Chairman of the Financial and Economic Administration of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Ignatius of Vologda and Kirillov requesting a project of your choice. The FHU grants the right to use the project to the diocese or a specific parish.

2. Since the copyright holder of the projects is Russian Orthodox Church represented by FHU, then the project you have chosen is provided on the basis of an Agreement signed with FHU. In this regard, to conclude an agreement You need to provide FHU details legal entity, with whom contractual relations will be concluded.

3. Linking the church and the parish house is carried out at a specific address by design organization, attracted by the diocese or parish.

4. Examination of project documentation linked to a specific address is carried out by a regional expert organization.

Submitted for examination project documentation along the temple complex with the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Burning Bush” on Michurinsky Avenue in Moscow

This was reported by the assistant rector of the Church of the Burning Bush Icon of the Mother of God. Address where it is planned to build the temple complex: Michurinsky Avenue, opposite the vl. 15.

Let us remind you that a small wooden church was erected at the parish. In the spring of 2015 - on the anniversary year of the 1000th anniversary of the repose of the Baptist of Rus' - the temple was consecrated in the name of Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir. Regular services are held in the temple.

During this time, parishioners raised funds to develop a project for the main temple complex with the Church of the Burning Bush Icon of the Mother of God.

Chief architect of the project: Alexander Ivanovich Zusik, CEO Architecton company, candidate of architecture, UNESCO prize winner.

In July 2016, the Chairman of the Financial and Economic Administration, Metropolitan Mark of Ryazan and Mikhailovsky, agreed on the preliminary design of the temple complex. Then the designers, led by the chief architect, began developing design documentation for the “P” stage. Today the design documentation is ready and submitted for examination.

A few words about the project

The temple and the parish house are designed in one volume. “If we talk about stylistics, we mainly relied on the Pskov tradition,” says architect Alexander Ivanovich Zusik. “Although, of course, there are also elements of the author’s vision. That is, we do not directly follow tradition. Our temple resembles historical classical Russian churches, but many of the details are original, so it is new project with an individual face."

Exterior finishing

It is planned to decorate the facades of the church and parish house decorative masonry made of solid red brick with plastering lime mortar. According to the project, the base is lined with granite slabs. Roof covering – aluminum sheet with polymer coating, the domes are coated with titanium nitride.

Window openings are filled with double-glazed windows with aluminum enameled profiles. Entrance doors- metal, veneered with valuable wood species. Internal doors- solid wood and metal.

“All materials used must have certificates of compliance with the requirements fire protection and sanitary standards,” emphasizes the architect.

Pond shore

“The Burning Bush Temple will be located on the shore of Ochakovsky Pond, visible from all sides, in particular, from Michurinsky Prospekt. A very advantageous place,” notes the architect. — The temple can be seen from the opposite bank of the pond. This is a rare opportunity to see the temple reflected in the water. Such a classic story. Another success: the bell tower faces the pond, which will enhance the acoustic effect. After all, the sound of the bell ringing will be reflected from the water surface. We don’t have many lakes and rivers in our city where we could use this technique.”

The church at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, which once stood near Smolensky Boulevard and Plyushchikha, between Novokonyushenny and Neopalimovsky lanes, was barbarically destroyed, like many other church buildings in Moscow. I would like to remind you of what we have lost.

The stable settlements in old Moscow were not just a place of compact residence of people busy with one thing - it was a special world. When at the beginning of Ivan's reign IV The Grozny Settlement of the sovereign's grooms was transferred from Kulishki, where it had long been located, to the area of ​​the current Starokonyushenny Lane; the new settlers first of all erected a small wooden church here, consecrated in memory of St. John the Baptist. According to tradition, John the Baptist was especially revered by grooms, and churches named after him were usually built in stable settlements. In the middle of X VII century, when widespread renovation of church buildings began in Moscow, the parishioners of Konyushennaya Sloboda also built a stone church. It was consecrated in 1653.

Church of John the Baptist in Starokonyushenny Lane (also not preserved)

But after the next Moscow fire, the wooden buildings of the Konyushennaya Sloboda burned out, and only the stone Church of St. John the Baptist survived. The rulers decided not to restore the grooms' settlement in its old location - Moscow was becoming crowded within the boundaries of Zemlyanoy Val. The settlement was moved to a new location behind Zemlyanoy Val and placed between the current Smolensky Boulevard and Plyushchikha. Not all the inhabitants of the settlement were happy about the housewarming, but they had to obey. In New Konyushennaya Sloboda, grooms built another church in 1680. This time, betraying the traditions of stable settlements, the church was not consecrated in memory of John. It was called the Burning Bush. According to Moscow legend, the church was built and named by the townspeople “by vow” to protect the New Konyushennaya Sloboda from fires. The icon of the Mother of God "The Burning Bush" was considered in Rus' to be a protector from fire. And indeed, fires began to bypass the parish of this church. The famous icon “requested” from the Tsar, which had previously been in the palace, was also transferred here. Dimitry Koloshin, a close associate of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich, distinguished himself with particular zeal in the construction of the temple. While under false accusations, Koloshin offered up prayers in front of the image of the Burning Bush, begging the Mother of God for intercession. When the charge was dropped, the courtier became convinced of the miraculous nature of the image.

One of the lists of the miraculous image of Our Lady of the Burning Bush

According to historical evidence, in the parish of the Neopalimovskaya Church, built mainly with wooden houses, there were almost no fires. When there was another fire in Moscow (and this was a frequent disaster in the city), the temple image of the Burning Bush was carried with a procession around the houses of parishioners, and they remained unharmed.
The hipped bell tower, very elegant, is characteristic of church buildings of the late 17th century, and the single-domed church, which was converted into stone in the first years of the 18th century, already bears the imprint of the early Baroque. By 1707, the construction of the new church building in stone was completely completed. They built it with donations from parishioners and, fortunately, everything was built before 1714, when Tsar Peter introduced a ban on the construction of stone buildings in Moscow (in favor of the development of St. Petersburg). Since then, the church has never been rebuilt, only the chapels of St. Mark the Evangelist and St. Dmitry of Rostov were added to it.

View of the church from the 2nd Neopalimosky Lane

Moscow historian I. Zabelin noted the “original beauty of Russian church architecture” that distinguished the Church of the Burning Bush.
Until 1771, a religious procession was held annually from the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin to the Neopalimovskaya Church, in which many Muscovites participated. It was celebrated in memory of the fact that the revered image of the Burning Bush was originally located in the Kremlin.
Another revered shrine that attracted believers to the temple was ancient icon Our Lady of Unexpected Joy.

When the French occupied Moscow in 1812, a Napoleonic soldier unexpectedly came to the archpriest of the Novodevichy Convent and gave him a silver chasuble stolen from the icon of the Burning Bush from the temple in Novokonyushennaya Sloboda. The Frenchman told the priest that ever since he stole this robe, he began to be tormented by terrible melancholy. After the expulsion of the French army, the archpriest returned the chasuble to the Neopalim church.
This temple was repeatedly remembered by all the inhabitants of the alleys between Smolensky Boulevard and Plyushchikha. Starting from the famous memoirist Elizaveta Petrovna Yankova, née Rimskaya_Korsakova, granddaughter of the historian Tatishchev, whose memoirs were recorded and published by her own grandson D.D. Blagovo (Elizaveta Petrovna lived for some time in a family mansion in the parish of the Burning Bush and could remember a lot), and before Marina Tsvetaeva, whose grandfather A.D. Main lived in 1st Neopalimsky Lane near this church (and the special comfort and atmosphere of these places forced Marina, when she got married, to look for a mansion similar to her grandfather’s, somewhere nearby)...

Corner of 1st and 2nd Neopalimovsky lanes, view of the church.

At the end of X I X century, in 1892, the Elizabethan Committee began to operate at the church, founded Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna, wife of the Moscow Governor-General, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich. The committee's duties included charitable help In particular, poor parents were given cash benefits to raise their children.
In 1899 the temple was renovated. With donations from parishioners, the iconostasis was gilded, the chapel of St. Mark the Evangelist was restored, and painters were invited to paint the walls. The guidebook "Around Moscow", published in 1917 by the Sabashnikov publishing house, mentions this church as the main architectural landmark in the Smolensky Boulevard area.
In 1929, the Moscow City Council raised the issue of demolishing the Church of the Burning Bush. Nobody particularly objected to the demolition, since the People's Commissariat for Education assigned the “third category” to the architectural monument. The Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee decided to demolish the Burning Bush at the same time as the Church of Boris and Gleb on Arbat Square. In the spring of 1930, the church on the corner of 1st Neopalimovsky and Novokonyushenny lanes was gone. She interfered with the city authorities... And the sprawling wooden houses, where native Muscovites lived in communal “crow settlements” without any amenities, baths or telephones, lived happily in Neopalimovsky lanes until the end of the 1970s, without interfering with the authorities at all.
The site of the church is now a half-square, half-empty lot, partially occupied by playground structures and sparse trees. A standard five-story house from the early 1930s, which appeared on the site of the church, is located in the depths of the site, violating the building line of the alleys. And if the temple, being the architectural dominant of the old alleys, collected them into a single whole, then the current heterogeneous development only breaks it into parts... Not to mention how correct it is to build a children's playground on the site of the old church cemetery.

The photograph of the place where the ghost of the Burning Bush remained was taken by deletant.

For me, the fate of the Burning Bush has special meaning- the window of my room looks out onto Neopalimovsky lanes. And now I see the roofs of houses. captured in the photograph. And I could see the domes of a beautiful ancient church. Sometimes it seems that their ghostly silhouettes appear in the darkness of the night...