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Russia, Moscow, Matrosskaya Tishina street, 9
Moscow
Russia
Telephone:
+7 (499) 713-27-99
Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sokolniki
- the only one in Moscow, built with funds from the military department of the Russian Empire according to the standard design of a military temple. Architect, engineer-colonel F.M. Verzhbitsky, created a temple that could accommodate 1,200 people, which corresponded to the approximate strength of the regiment in peacetime. About seventy such churches were built before the 1917 revolution.
History[edit]
The Governor General of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, participated in the foundation stone of the temple in 1903. The temple was built with the diligence of servicemen of the 6th Sapper Brigade of the Moscow Military District, located in the Sokolniki barracks opposite the temple. The work team under the leadership of Lieutenant Grunfeld decorated the temple with simple paintings.
In the Central Archives of Moscow, the metric books of the temple have been preserved; unfortunately, only the title page is readable; the ink is blurred on the remaining pages.
The consecration of the Temple took place on March 24, 1906. A telegram of welcome was sent by Sovereign Emperor Nicholas II.
The first rector of the temple was priest Vasily Vasilyevich Slyunin (born 1866), a hero of the defense of Port Arthur, who had extensive experience serving as a regimental priest. As a regimental priest of the 5th Siberian Rifle Regiment, Father Vasily served in the Far East for several years. Participated in hostilities against Japan in 1904 -1905. From the first to the last days he took part in the defense of Port Arthur. During the fighting, Father Vasily was seriously wounded by a grenade. His military merits were awarded with 3 military orders: St. Anne III degree with swords, St. Vladimir IV degree with swords, St. Anna II degree with swords and a pectoral gold cross from the office of His Imperial Majesty on the St. George Ribbon. Father Vasily left us a detailed description of his ministry in two articles published in the journal “Bulletin of the Military Clergy of Russia” at the beginning of the twentieth century.
As a reward for military merits, Father Vasily was transferred from the Far East to the capital, where he became rector of the newly built military Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Here he served until April 1915, and then left for the active army, where he was appointed priest of the Life Guards Cossack Ataman Regiment.
On April 6, 1915, Hieromonk Sergius (Plaksin), a resident of the Moscow Sretensky Monastery, was appointed acting rector of the temple. Father Vasily took direct part in the hostilities against the Germans. He was captured and spent about 3 years in camps with his soldiers. He was released and returned to Moscow. He served in the temple until its closure in 1923. Later he died of typhus.
Father Vasily had 8 children. One of them, Fedor, was shot in 1937, the other, Vladimir Vasilyevich, born in 1908, graduated from the Naval School. Frunze, became a captain of the submarine fleet, and was a participant in the Great Patriotic War. His daughters, Kira Vladimirovna and Valeria Vladimirovna, were happy to see the revived temple in which their grandfather served.
The great-grandson of the granddaughter of Archpriest Vasily Slyunin, Dmitry Pozharsky, born in 2014, received the sacrament of Holy Baptism in our church. The sacrament was performed by the rector of the Compound, Archpriest Mikhail Vasiliev, on May 25, 2015.
After the engineer battalion went to the front, the 1st telegraph and searchlight regiment and a team of scooter drivers were stationed in the Sokolniki barracks, training reservists for the front in engineering specialties. At the end of 1915, the Cadet Corps was evacuated from Warsaw to the same barracks. A.V. Suvorov, whose students were officially called “Suvorovites”.
During the First World War, Sokolniki housed more than ten military hospitals. Heroes of the First World War who died from their wounds were buried around the temple. So, a cemetery was formed next to the temple, which was later turned into a public garden.
After the revolution, the temple was closed and badly damaged: the bell tower and the central dome were destroyed, the military cemetery was destroyed. In 1923, by decision of the Sokolniki District Council, the Regimental Church was converted into a soldiers' club.
During the Great Patriotic War, it housed a guardhouse. Since 1941, the headquarters of the Airborne Forces has been located in the former Sapper barracks. In 1965, military unit 08265 of the Moscow Military District was located in the temple building. There was a courier communications center designed to process postal correspondence from foreign groups of Soviet troops. There were no household amenities in the temple building; the heating was coal. The cast iron firebox was placed in place of the Holy See in the altar. By decree of the Moscow City Executive Committee, coal heating was prohibited within the city back in 1969, but this was one of those places where black smoke was coming from the chimney for many years. At the same time, the building itself was already in extremely disrepair.
At the end of the 90s of the last century, the parish in Krasnoye Selo unsuccessfully tried to achieve the return of the former church building to the fold of the Russian Orthodox Church.
In 2001, the priests caring for the Airborne Forces initiated correspondence between the Airborne Forces command and the leadership of the Ministry of Defense about the release of the building for a military temple. In 2004, at the request of the commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel General A.P. Kolmakov, His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II established the Patriarchal Compound at the headquarters of the Airborne Forces in Sokolniki (Decree No. 3210 of June 2). The Compound included the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as well as other churches on the territory of military units of the Airborne Forces stationed in Moscow or the Moscow region.
Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sokolniki (Moscow)
During the Great Patriotic War, a guardhouse was placed in the temple
During the First World War, there were more than ten military hospitals on the territory of Sokolniki. Soldiers who died from wounds were buried around the temple. As a result, a cemetery was formed next to the church, which later turned into a public garden.
In 1923, by decision of the Sokolniki District Council, the temple was closed, and the building was converted into a soldiers' club. During the Great Patriotic War, a guardhouse was located here.
After the war, the building housed a military unit and operated a courier communications center designed to process postal correspondence coming from foreign groups of Soviet troops. The building did not have any amenities. A cast-iron firebox was installed in place of the Holy See in the altar. And although coal heating was prohibited within the city by a resolution of the city executive committee, smoke constantly poured out of the temple chimney in cold weather. Over the years, the temple has become very dilapidated. The bell tower and the central dome collapsed. A gas station appeared on the site of the military cemetery.
Current state[edit]
His Holiness the Patriarch blessed to revive this temple with the Cathedral of the Airborne Forces, and after reconstruction to place in it boards with the names of the paratrooper heroes who died while performing their military duty. This will not only restore historical justice, but will also actively help the spiritual and moral education of military personnel of the Airborne Forces and Military Transport Aviation, whose headquarters are stationed in the buildings opposite the temple.
Archpriest Mikhail Vasiliev was appointed rector of the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Decree No. 3263 of June 2, 2004). His experience serving as a regimental chaplain in the Strategic Missile Forces and Airborne Forces includes business trips to combat zones in Kosovo, Bosnia, Chechnya, and Abkhazia. In 2005, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, Father Mikhail graduated from the Higher Academic Courses of the Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and was awarded by the President of Russia for his service with military awards: the Order of Courage and the Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree. Together with him, several more Airborne Forces priests who have extensive practical experience working with military personnel, as well as parachute jumping as part of units of the Airborne Forces, will serve in the temple.
In 2006, on the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Church of the Annunciation, with the permission of the command of the Moscow Military District, the Divine Liturgy was served for the military personnel of the communications center on the Throne of the marching temple of the Airborne Forces. In July 2009, with the appointment of Colonel General V.A. Shamanov as commander of the Airborne Forces, Hero of Russia, the temple building was finally vacated and handed over to the paratroopers. Since that time, the restoration of the memorial center began, which includes: the Cathedral of the Airborne Forces, a military museum and a public garden, in which it is planned to erect a monument to war heroes.
On July 9, 2009, the ceremony of consecration and erection of crosses took place at the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sokolniki, the Cathedral of the Russian Airborne Forces. On April 7, 2011, on the patronal feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a solemn consecration and installation of a gilded cross took place on the revived 32-meter bell tower.
In 2012, the park near the temple was reconstructed with funds from the Moscow Government. At the same time, workers discovered and partially damaged soldiers’ graves. By August 2013, the main construction work was completed, a marble iconostasis was erected, and painting of the vaults and walls began. The area of the temple was increased by creating a basement floor to match the size of the temple. Today it houses a baptismal church, consecrated in 2015 in honor of the revered Great Martyr Nikita the Warrior. By 2021, the territory of the temple has been landscaped: a forged fence with military symbols has been installed, granite paths have been laid, lawns have been laid out, and a large playground has been made with a soft rubber surface for the children of the area. The refectory building was erected and painted. Today, inside the temple building, the former church splendor has been revived, and the painting of the temple is almost completed.
In 2021, work continued on the creation of a military museum. The Patriarchal Compound is doing a lot of work to care for paratroopers in all parts of the country where airborne troops are stationed.
The Divine Liturgy is celebrated weekly in the Temple. Mobile churches created by the Compound accompanied Russian paratroopers in peacekeeping operations in the Balkans, Kosovo and Bosnia, the North Caucasus, Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia. Every year, at least 70 Divine Liturgies are served in the field, at which more than 10 thousand paratroopers pray and at least 6 thousand soldiers and officers partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ.
The temple became part of the Patriarchal Compound at the headquarters of the Airborne Forces
In 2001, the priests caring for the Airborne Forces initiated correspondence between the Airborne Forces command and the leadership of the Ministry of Defense about the release of the building for a military temple. The then head of the Sokolniki district government, Major General of the Reserve Alexander Kasyanov, also helped them quite actively in this matter.
At the request of the commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel General Alexander Kolmakov, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' established the Patriarchal Compound at the headquarters of the Airborne Forces in Sokolniki. As a result, it included not only the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but also other churches located on the territory of military units of the Airborne Forces in Moscow and the Moscow region. And the temple in Sokolniki, with the blessing of the patriarch, became the cathedral of the Airborne Forces
The first liturgy in the temple was celebrated in 2006 on the centenary of the opening of the temple.
Location[edit]
Temple address:
107014, Moscow, st. Matrosskaya Silence, 9
Telephone:
+7 (499) 713-27-99
Email:
Directions:
From Art. m. Sokolniki you need to cross the road at the pedestrian crossing to the side of the street opposite from the exit from the metro. Rusakovskaya. To the left of the crossing there is an old brick fire tower building. After going around the tower, exit onto Barbolina Street. Following it straight all the time, you reach the street. 5th Sokolnicheskaya (there is a gas station at the intersection). On the right you will see the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Time when walking from Sokolniki metro station is about 15 minutes.
From Art. m. Elektrozavodskaya you should go to the opposite side of the metro exit from Bolshaya Semyonovskaya street. Turn left and go towards Elektrozavodsky Bridge. Cross the bridge and follow Gastello Street (about 500 m) to the intersection with Matrosskaya Silence Street. Turn right and walk about 100 m. On the left you will see the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Time when walking from Elektrozavodskaya metro station is about 20 minutes.
Video[edit]
Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sokolniki
Sokolniki. Temple of the Airborne Forces
The Primate of the Russian Church performed the great consecration of the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Sermon by Patriarch Kirill after the consecration of the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sokolniki
Festive service in the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Full version
Festive service in the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Short version
