The most beautiful churches in Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk is a fairly large city. Several Orthodox churches are built here. Believers have the opportunity to visit the most diverse churches in Chelyabinsk. In the city there are not only Orthodox churches. Those who profess any religions will find their like-minded people in the heart of the Southern Urals. In the city there is a Roman Catholic church, a synagogue, mosques, the Protestant church "New Life".

Chelyabinsk is a city whose holy abodes are known to many Russian Orthodox Christians. They annually become places for pilgrimage, where parishioners come not only from the region, but also from the whole country. Many churches of the city are restored and restored, some were rebuilt.

Chelyabinsk Diocese

It is part of the Russian Orthodox Church. Chelyabinsk Vicariate was established in October 1908. It functioned within the Orenburg diocese. The place of accommodation was the male Makarevsky Uspensky Monastery. The first bishop was Archimandrite Dionysius. As an independent Chelyabinsk diocese began to exist only after ten years.

White church

Chelyabinsk annually receives tens of thousands of tourists. Many of the other attractions are sure to visit and holy places. On the territory of the city and in the region there are more than fifty holy places. The main church of Chelyabinsk (the cathedral church of St. Simeon) is known not only in the Urals. Initially, the cathedral was built as a graveyard, but at the end of the last century it was completely reconstructed. The beauty of this church of Chelyabinsk, its decor (tiled friezes and mosaic icons) made this temple one of the main sights of the city. In St. Simeon's Cathedral, valuable shrines are kept, dating from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. The White Church is the second name of this church.

St. Simeon's Cathedral is the only one in Chelyabinsk, within the walls of which for more than one hundred and thirty years the divine services have not ceased for a day. The White Church is visited by residents of all urban areas. On holidays and weekends in the walls of this church Chelyabinsk is especially crowded.

During the years of its existence, the St. Simeon Cathedral was enriched with a large number of unique shrines. It is here that there is a piece of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, which is embedded in the holy Crucifixion. Believers pray before him with reverence.

In the icons of St. Sergius of Radonezh and Seraphim of Sarov, the elders of Optina, Job Pochaevsky and others, fragments of holy relics are also kept. In this temple there are a lot of old-fashioned images, from which, as the parishioners say, a special grace comes. These icons are real rarities of Orthodoxy.

One of the venerated images of the Mother of God is the icon "Skoroposlushnitsa". It is to it that believers turn with requests for spiritual insight, healing of various diseases.

Trinity Church

Chelyabinsk is proud of its temples. The Trinity Orthodox Church is located in the heart of the South Urals. Initially, the parish, erected from a tree, was called Nikolsky. Until 1768, it was located at the intersection of the Great and Siberian streets. Then the temple gained a new location, and from that moment the church got its present name. By 1799 there were more than five and a half thousand parishioners in the congregation.

The most revered churches

In 1907 in Chelyabinsk in the place of the old chapel was built the temple of Alexander Nevsky. This beautiful one-story church was executed in the Neo-Russian style. Her decor was richly decorated with red brick. The temple itself was thirteen-headed. However, in the Soviet years the church stopped working. In its walls, one after another, various institutions were located, until in the eighties the building passed the Philharmonic. An organ was installed in the temple, and the building began to function as a chamber music room. This continued until 2013. Today the temple is on the list of cultural heritage of Chelyabinsk.

On the bulk of the hill in the town of Traktorozavodsky district there is a very beautiful church built of red brick. It's about the temple of Basil the Great. Inside you can pray the icon of the healer Panteleimon and the Mother of God "Troučuchice", which are considered relatively new: they were created in the early twentieth century.