Church of Paraskeva Friday description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Kazan (Topic)

Church of Paraskeva Friday description and photo - Russia - Volga region: Kazan. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The temple in honor of the holy Great Martyr Paraskeva Pyatnitsa is located in the very center of Kazan, near the Kremlin. In 1566, at the very beginning of B. Krasnaya Street, a wooden church of St. Nicholas Zaraisky with the side-altar of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa was built. The wooden church burned down in a fire in 1579. In the form in which the temple exists now, it was founded in 1726. The construction was completed in 1728. Then the temple was consecrated. The construction of the temple was financed by the rich Kazan merchant I.A. Mikhlyaev.

The temple was built in the Russian Baroque style. The shape of the temple is a traditional octagon on a four. The height of the temple is 22 meters. The people called the temple Pyatnitsky in honor of the miraculous image of St. Paraskeva Pyatnitsa located in the temple. On November 10, during the commemoration of Paraskeva, pilgrims flocked to the temple. An ancient cross with particles of holy relics was kept in the chapel of the Epiphany. The right side-altar has not survived to this day. During its history, the temple completely burned out several times. Only the walls remained. The temple was altered many times.

In 1923, the temple was made like a museum. Shrines from destroyed and closed churches and monasteries were brought to it. In 1937 the temple was turned into a prison. Those who were sentenced to death were shot in it. The executed were buried right inside the church and near it. In the 1950s, the temple was abandoned, the bell tower collapsed. A new story began in 1993, when the temple was transferred to the Ministry of Culture. Reconstruction work began. The ministry's plans were to create a museum of icons. In 1996, the church was transferred to the Kazan diocese.

During the restoration work, it was found that that the entire territory of the temple was a cemetery. The human remains were carefully collected and buried. A marble cross was erected on a mass grave in the courtyard of the temple. In 2004, a tomb was built on this site, in which the remains of those killed are buried. The four-tiered iconostasis, with the blessing of the Archbishop of Kazan, was painted red in honor of the martyrs. The destroyed bell tower was restored in 2000.

Since 2004, a Sunday school has been operating at the church. The parish library was opened in 2010.

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