Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Old Simonov

Camera: Olympus mju 1 / Film: Fujifilm Fujicolor C200 (Expired 05/2007)
December 30, 2015
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500
Scanned copy of the original negative, without any processing. In the mode «as is»

Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Old Simon - a church that is located on the left bank of the Moskva River, in the borders of the former Simonova settlement. The first mention of this temple belong to 1370, when the site was founded Simonov monastery. The monastery was built a small wooden church. According to legend, it served as St. Theodore, a nephew of St. Sergius of Radonezh. Once in 1379, the monastery was moved to another place, church remained. In the years 1509-1510 on the site of a wooden, built a new stone domed church. Wooden building refectory and the bell tower was rebuilt in stone only at the end of the XVIII century, and in the middle of the XIX century they built and improved, so in the refectory added two chapels of St. Nicholas and St. Sergius. It is known that in 1870 in the chapel of St. Sergius set, cast iron tombstone Alexander Relight Aslyabya and Andrew, who were ranked Russian Orthodox Church canonized.Since 1928, for the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Old Simon fallen on hard times. It was closed, and the premises were used for technical purposes plant "Dinamo". To access all the faithful in the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Old Simon again became possible only 1989godu. Church re-consecrated September 16, 1989 By order of the governor of the Bryansk region, in honor of the heroic monks Relight Aslyabya and, in 2006, the restored bell tower placed great bell "Relight".

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