St. Nicholas Church

St. Nicholas Church, an architectural monument of 1719-1720, is a rare type of temple building with a detached bell tower for Voronezh. His story goes back to nach. XVII century, when here, in the Vasnaya Sloboda, was erected a wooden church in honor of St. Dimitry, Prince of Uglich. According to legend, in that temple there was a revered miraculous image of St. Nicholas. It is the only icon that survived a fire in 1703. Out of special reverence for the image, the townspeople on donations built a stone church in honor of St. Nicholas of Myrlicia. 1720: The temple was consecrated. 1831: cholera raged in Voronezh, the especially revered icon of the Tolga Mother of God became famous. It was revealed to the merchant Dyakova in a dream that if a moleben was served before the Tolga Icon of the Mother of God and the icon of the Monk Cassian the Roman, then the disease would bypass the city. The pious woman fulfilled what she saw in a dream. 1836: in the temple, the merchant Lyalin built a right chapel in honor of the Tolga icon of the Mother of God. 1942: The temple was closed. During the Second World War, two tiers of the bell tower were broken, the roof of the refectory and the covering of the dome burned. 1943-1949: St. Nicholas Church - the only functioning church in the city becomes a cathedral. The first post-war Archbishop of Voronezh and Ostrog Iona (1866-1945) now rests behind the altar of the church. With the blessing of His Eminence Methodius, Metropolitan of Voronezh and Lipetsk, on June 9, 2001, the rite of consecration of the Baptism Church in honor of the Tolga Icon of the Mother of God at the Nikolsk Church was performed, the first divine service was held there. At the temple there is a Sunday school, a children's choir, a sports hall, a computer class, legal advice, a church shop. There is a library, rental of Orthodox video and audio. With the blessing of Metropolitan Sergius of Voronezh and Borisogleb, the Orthodox family newspaper Svetlitsa is published. An orphanage has been built.