Church of St. John the Theologian in the village of Ivanovskoye description and photos - Russia - Leningrad region: Kingiseppsky district (Topic)

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The Church of St. John the Theologian is located in the village of Ivanovskoye, in the Kingisepp district. This village was granted by Nicholas I to A.I. Blok (great-grandfather of the famous poet). At the beginning of the 20th century, it belonged to Natalya Ivanovna Girs, the granddaughter of A.I. Block.

In 1901, the owner of the village began to build a stone church by the road that leads from the village of Porechye to the estate, next to the division of the Khrevitsa river into two branches. On August 14, 1901, the project of the future church was approved. The temple was conceived to be five-domed, with a two-tier hipped bell tower and a refectory. It combined the Moscow style of the 17th century and elements of Byzantine-Romanesque architecture. The Moscow style was represented by a composition, a hipped-roof bell tower, keeled platbands over the windows, a balustrade, and the shape of adjacent columns. The general spatial solution, the division of the facade and the arcade of windows were borrowed from Byzantine-Romanesque architecture. The Church of St. John the Evangelist is a successful eclectic stylization that has a rich tradition in the temple architecture of Russia.

The project of the Theological Church was developed by V.A. Kosyakov. During this period, he was the architect of the Synod, in St. Petersburg, according to his designs, two large churches were built: the Kiev-Pechersk Compound on Vasilyevsky Island and the Epiphany Church on Gutuevsky Island. In addition, at the same time, the majestic Naval Cathedral was being erected in Kronstadt, the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the capital, Vladimir Cathedral and the Church of the Holy Martyr Tsarina Alexandra at the Putilov factory in Astrakhan. The calculation of the vault was carried out by the engineer-architect P.P. Trifonov.

The theological church was built on donations from the peasant M.E. Emelyanov and local peasants. Natalya Ivanovna Girs headed the construction commission and partially financed the rather expensive construction. The owner of the estate did not live in poverty, and, in addition to vast land holdings in Ivanovskoye, she had a paper mill, which she founded in 1895 together with the local landowners. The factory, where 200 workers worked in 1904, was transferred to bankruptcy management, but N.I. Girs brought, as did a small sawmill located in the village.

The church with one throne was erected for four years and was completed before the beginning of 1905. It was built with red bricks and concrete. From it were made: a large dome, balusters, platbands, columns.

The church was consecrated on August 9, 1905, on the day of Saint Panteleimon the Healer. Presumably the name of the church was associated with the name of the Apostle John, traditional in the Blok family. After the rite of consecration, the church, as a manor house, was assigned to the parish church in Yastrebino. Since the number of residents in the village of Ivanovskoye had grown quite strongly, in 1911 the Synod opened a separate parish here.

In the period from 1905 to 1911 the temple was cared for by the clergy of the Yastrebinsky temple. For five years since the creation of an independent parish, the temple was headed by Pavel Dmitrovsky. In 1898 he was ordained a priest and served in the St. Petersburg diocese. In the village of Ivanovskoye, Father Pavel served for three years and, when the First World War began, was sent to the active army as a priest. After the revolution, Father Pavel came to Estonia and served in Narva, On October 3, 1937, he was consecrated Bishop of Narva. In 1945, he was appointed Archbishop of Tallinn and Estonia.

Since 1916, Nikolai Alexandrovich Chernov, the future new martyr, was the rector of the church. The last abbot of the Ivanovo church is Hieromonk Andronic, who was arrested in January 1931 and then shot in exile in Kargopol.

The church was closed in 1936. Before the war, there was an air observation post of the Soviet army here. After the occupation of the village, the front passed here for a month, and during the hostilities the bell tower was destroyed. After the end of the war, the temple continued to be dismantled. During the time that passed after the closure of the temple, the old residents could not even remember who the temple was dedicated to. They remembered that the closed temple was used as a repair shop and warehouse.

In 2001, the temple was transferred to the Orthodox community. It has been operating since 2004. Now the temple is being restored.

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