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Borisovo is one of the districts of Moscow, originally existed as a village, which became part of the capital during its expansion in 1960. The village belonged to the palace department, and was founded at the end of the 16th century by Tsar Boris Godunov on the shore of a large pond. But the temple in the village was built much later than its foundation.

History of the foundation of the temple

The construction of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Borisov dates back to 1628. Then it was a wooden church, consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

In the future, the following stages can be noted in the history of the temple:

The old temple was not dismantled, although it was in a completely dilapidated state.

Interesting fact! The Moscow Archaeological Society, which considered it an architectural monument, prevented the dismantling of the old temple. There were no funds to restore the church, and in 1897 the community agreed that the old church needed to be dismantled.

During Soviet times, the temple was not operational by 1938. During the liquidation of the village, it was preserved, as it was recognized as a historical and architectural monument. In 1991, the Church of the Holy Trinity in Borisov was transferred to the Church and since that time services have been held there again.

Description of the architecture

The architecture of the temple is unusual, which is probably why it attracted the attention of architects who defended the right to preserve the church as a monument.

In terms of plan, it is a refectory with a bell tower, and the altar is not so pronounced. Everything is very laconic, modest and at the same time without any sophistication. Most likely, the residents of Borisov were prompted to build just such a stone church by a simple lack of funds to make their parish church more fundamental.

Activities of the parish

The Church of the Holy Trinity in Borisov was handed over to the Orthodox community in a terrible state; in fact, only the walls remained. But in a short time it was possible to recreate the temple in its previous form and resume worship.

Divine service in the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity, Borisovo

Nowadays there is a Sunday school at the church, which carries out all the work on catechesis and religious education of the entire population of the region:

• The school day is Saturday;
• It is located in the Center for Continuing Education named after. St. Seraphim of Sarov, which is located at st. Yasenevaya, 33/2;
• Sunday school sponsors a social shelter for teenage children and correctional orphanage No. 9.

Also, the temple regularly organizes pilgrimage trips to the holy places of Russia.

Saints and shrines

A parishioner of the temple was Alexy Zverev, glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church as a new martyr. He was a member of the Local Council in 1917 - 1918. and was a member of the commission to investigate the murder of Archbishop Andronik (Nikolsky) of Perm.

Among the most revered shrines of the temple:

• icon of the blessed Matrona of Moscow (on her is a saint with open eyes);
• icon of the holy martyr. Alexia Zvereva;
• icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God with a piece of the Holy Sepulcher;
• ancient icons of the archangels Michael and Gabriel;
• icons of the Mother of God “Quick to Hear”, “Seeking the Lost”, “Sovereign”, “Quiet My Sorrows”;
• icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

Iconostasis of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Borisov

Patronal holiday and schedule

The main holiday of the temple is dedicated to the Holy Trinity and is celebrated on the 50th day after Easter. They serve in the temple every morning and evening.

The idea arose back in 1988, but at that time many buildings were returned to the Church, so the construction of a new temple was delayed.

The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity was erected on a hill - as was customary before. They built a single-domed cruciform building in the Byzantine style. The height with the cross is 70 meters.

On the left in front of the entrance hangs a marble plaque with the inscription: This temple, marking the first millennium of the baptism of Rus', was erected by the grace of God with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' through the labors and funds of the Baltic Construction Company. 2004 from the Nativity of Christ. On the right is a marble plaque with a list of the temple's board of trustees. Inside the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity there is a porcelain iconostasis in the traditions of the famous Kuznetsov workshops.

The Patriarchal Metochion on Borisov Ponds also includes a clergy house, a Sunday school, a belfry and a chapel in the name of Prince Alexander Nevsky.

On Friday evenings after work (since you can sleep peacefully on Saturday), it’s almost a tradition that I go into the city to photograph something. This time I decided to go to the Moscow district of Orekhovo-Borisovo, to photograph the temple complex of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity.
Although this is a remake, it is made very beautifully, in the Byzantine style, which is quite unusual for Moscow architecture.

From Wikipedia:

The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on Borisov Ponds, in Orekhov-Borisov is an Orthodox church in the south of Moscow. Geographically located in the Orekhovo-Borisovo Northern region. Built in the early 2000s in memory of the thousand-year anniversary of the baptism of Rus'.

It has the status of the Patriarchal Metochion.

The decision to build a church in Moscow in honor of the Holy Trinity, dedicated to the anniversary of the Baptism of Rus', was made in 1988, but was originally planned in a different place, somewhat to the west of the present (near the Tsaritsyno museum-reserve on June 13, 1988, Patriarch Pimen consecrated the foundation stone, which was a consequence of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Council satisfying the request of the Moscow Patriarchate, expressed during the meeting of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee M. S. Gorbachev with the Patriarch and members of the Synod on April 29 of the same year; but construction was not started for a number of reasons, in particular, due to the fact that it began in 1995 year of reconstruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on Volkhonka).

On September 1, 2001, Patriarch Alexy II performed a prayer service for the beginning of the construction of the memorial church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Orekhov-Borisov.

By the spring of 2004, the construction of the temple building was completed, a team of icon painters under the leadership of People's Artist of the Russian Federation, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts Vasily Nesterenko began painting the temple, the project of which was approved by His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov May 12, 2004. The grandiose ceramic iconostasis was made by St. Petersburg workshops under the direction of the artist Yuri Volkotrub. All the icons for it were painted by Anna Kalinina, a famous Moscow icon painter, whose original work on creating 48 icons of this iconostasis was recognized by the Russian Academy of Arts as one of the best in Moscow. From the Russian Orthodox Church, Anna Kalinina received the gold medal of the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh (2004) and the Silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (2012). The icons in the icon cases were made by icon painters under the direction of Elena Knyazeva. For this work she was awarded the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh of the Russian Orthodox Church, III degree.

I immediately liked the place where the temple complex was built. On the shore of a large reservoir, surrounded by a park and apple orchards. It’s August now and the branches of the apple trees and the ground beneath them are literally strewn with apples. I took a walk through the park while looking for angles for photos - it smells like apples everywhere!

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Walking around the temple waiting for sunset, I saw an open door to the entrance of a nearby high-rise building. Luck! Usually all entrances are locked with a combination lock.
The house is about 20 floors (I didn’t count), I went up to the 14th floor, went through the fire escape onto the technical balcony - and there it was, beauty! There was a magnificent view from the height - the people who live in this house are lucky!
I didn’t climb to the very top, because... I wanted to take the sky into the frame too.

I set up a tripod and waited for sunset and evening light. The sunset was amazing this time!

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But there was no luck with the evening lighting - it never turned on, although the spotlights were installed. But there was still light - the temple was illuminated by the weak light of street lamps. And maybe even this was for the better - the light was softer, without overexposure, but yellow.

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I'll probably have to try to catch the backlight in the future. There appear to be halogen lights that produce white light. I think that with the bright white temple, the previous photo (#6) should look good.

After waiting about another hour, suddenly the automation would work and the backlight would still turn on, I got ready to go home.
Finally, I took the same view as at the very beginning.

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It was from this house (in the center of the frame) that I filmed. A row of balconies is just visible, on one of which my tripod stood.

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The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on Borisov Ponds (also known as the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in honor of the millennium of the Baptism of Rus' in Orekhovo-Borisov) was built in 2004 in memory of the thousand-year anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. (Address: Kashirskoe highway, building 61a).

Now in Moscow there are a lot of newly built churches. Sometimes among them there are very beautiful ones, but there is nothing special to say about them, so the text will be boring.

The emergence of the village of Borisov is associated with the name of Tsar Boris Godunov. At the end of the 16th century, Godunov built a developed cascade of ponds on the Gorodenka River, which flowed through the palace estate. The Upper Pond began near the village of Chernaya Gryaz (later Tsaritsyno).

On the shore of the last, eastern pond, the settlement of Borisovo arose - an economic village of the palace village of Kolomenskoye. The pond retained its ancient name “Borisovsky” or “Tsareborisovsky”. Borisovo was part of the palace lands until 1917.

As a village with a church, Borisovo was first mentioned in the parish salary books of the patriarchal order for 1628. This does not mean that there was no church place here before. The first wooden church was dedicated to St. Nicholas.

Then a new, white stone church was built, dedicated to the Holy Life-Giving Trinity. The exact date of its construction is unknown.

The church stood near the very shore of the pond, and nearby there was an old cemetery. Such an inconvenient location of the cemetery next to water was completely unacceptable for sanitary reasons.

Moreover, the construction of the palace complex in Tsaritsino with all kinds of dams caused a further sharp rise in water.

The old white stone church quickly fell into disrepair due to constant dampness and threatened to collapse.

The collection of donations began for the construction of a new temple on the hill, but it moved very slowly, since a third of the Borisov village were Old Believers.

The new church was built and consecrated in 1873, finishing continued until 1874. At the same time, a large bell was raised to the bell tower.

Under the Bolsheviks, the church was closed, partially destroyed and converted into a grain warehouse for the Borisov state farm.

In the summer of 1988, in the year of the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus', the foundation stone of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity, dedicated to this event, was consecrated on the banks of the Borisov ponds in the Orekhovo-Borisovo area. Construction of the temple began only in 2000 at a new location near the Kashirskoe highway.

In October 2000, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus', a cross was installed in a new place and the first prayer service was held, and on September 1, 2001, with a huge crowd of people, the foundation stone of the future Church of the Life-Giving Trinity was consecrated.

The complex, which has the status of the Patriarchal Metochion, consists of a church, a clergy house, a children's music school and three chapels. The temple can accommodate up to 4,000 people at the same time.
All domes are painted blue - a symbol of the Mother of God and angelic powers.