Temple of Paraskeva Friday in Butovo - the pearl of the microdistrict

City of Icon of the Roman Empire - the birthplace of the holyGreat Martyr Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, who lived there in the III century. Born in the family of Christians, Paraskeva was wholeheartedly devoted to this religion, went to a martyr's death because of her, and will forever remain in the memory of Christians. Temples and chapels were built in her honor.

Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva

Paraskeva Friday is considered the patronessagricultural workers. Industrialists, traders and travelers also consider themselves under her care and care. In pre-revolutionary Russia, there was not a single trade square where St. Paraskeva Pyatnitsa Church would not have stood, there were 4 of them in Moscow alone. The name Friday was given to her by parents in memory of the bottom of Christ's crucifixion. Paraskeva in Greek means “eve of the holiday”. In the Orthodox Church, the day of the memory of this great martyr falls on October 28. On this day, it is customary to bring fruits to the altar for consecration and store them until the next harvest, thus ensuring its subsequent abundance. This saint is prayed both for the harvest and for the prevention of the loss of livestock.

In humans, it can heal severe ailments - andmental and physical. In addition, the centuries-old experience contributed to the formation of the tradition of asking the saints to help the girls in a speedy and successful marriage. Therefore, every temple of the Great Martyr Paraskeva Friday is popular. On the icons, the saint is always depicted with a cross in his hands and a red maforia. She is always strict and harsh, and in paintings associated with the Passion of Christ, she represents Great Friday, the day of the crucifixion of Christ. Among the Orthodox, her image was intertwined with Mokosha, a pagan deity, also a patroness of fields and cattle, to whom Friday was also dedicated.

The emergence of Butovo

The temple Paraskeva Friday in Butovo - one of manyreligious objects dedicated to this martyr in the territory of Moscow. The church has a rich history that began three hundred years before the emergence around the vast area of ​​North Butovo. Since the 17th century, the notion of “village” existed in Russia, representing a very small settlement, literally several courtyards. But it must have included a chapel. There were 3 peasant and 2 bobyl 's such a village in five yards, that is, no land plots, and there was Butovo, who was owned by diak Samoilov. It arose on the site of the village of the Shcherbatovs' landowners who had burned to the ground, who owned these lands from the 15th century.

Chapel, church, temple

In their estate was a wooden church, whichalso burned down during the Polish-Lithuanian invasion - in 1612. Decades later, namely in 1694, a new stone church was consecrated here, built in the new Russian style according to the design of the architect of the Annunciation. The temple of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in Butovo was small, and in the XVIII century, the aisle of the Nativity of the Virgin was added to it. Now there could be up to 400 believers. In the years 1903-1904 the temple was updated. Not far away, in the village of Znamenskoye Sadki, the estate of the princes Trubetskoy, there was also a church, but it was not preserved. Together, these two religious buildings are then united in one parish, then separated.

The name of the temple Paraskeva Friday in Butovoreceived from the roadside chapels, many of which since ancient times were called in honor of this saint, and she was popular in Russia back in pre-Mongol times. How could it be otherwise - because she patronized the traveler and merchant! Her icon in a glazed icon case, such a peculiar chapel, is in our time from the outside of the temple. The church is very beautiful. It, along with the temples dedicated to this saint, erected in ancient Chernihiv and Smolensk and preserved to our days, are monuments of architecture. The grave of the last abbot Nikolai Bogoyavlensky is located near the altar, on the east side.

Years of hard times

On the temple Paraskeva Friday in Butovo all collapsed30s, when churches and their ministers were destroyed. It was closed, desecrated and looted. Then in it for many years there were warehouses, sewing workshops, and later the temple burned down. Destroyed, without windows, doors and roofs, it began to be restored in the 90s by the forces of the community to which it was transferred, and in 1998 the church was consecrated by the Patriarch of Moscow. Believers brought icons, new ones were ordered for donations. When there was no huge residential neighborhood North Butovo, on this place there were several villages - Kiovo, Bitsa, Kachalovo. Therefore, the Friday Church in Butovo has another name, so to speak, a synonym - the temple of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in Kachalovo.

It is very popular with the local population, but small. Therefore, in this area is planned the construction of a new large religious building, named after the Prophet Elijah.

New trends

Among the elders of the temple are people who were in the past andsea ​​captain, and military, and pediatrician. Perhaps this affects the active church life of the temple. It has a Sunday school, whose students, along with the study of religion, take part in sports competitions. The temple provides effective assistance to orphanages, is engaged in the rehabilitation of alcoholics and drug addicts.

Among the shrines of the temple there are such rarities as the icon of Equal-to-the-Apostles Nina (Georgian saint), the icon of the Mother of God "The Inexhaustible Chalice", the icon of Seraphim Swarovsky.