St. Nicholas Church

The majestic TEMPLE ⛪️ Very beautiful and one of the most ancient in the Lipetsk region 🦚

The temple has been completely restored. There is a pilgrimage service. Really like.

This is what all believers need !!! And even to people like me ... The main thing is that for all of us the essence of true faith is conveyed, they say that and how to come to true repentance and everything, without blaming anyone, aiming to make us better, wiser , and if it doesn’t work, then do not despair ... This is the temple to which the Soul reaches out and wants to come again and again, even if it is unchurched ...

A beautiful temple, everything is done so that people would visit temples more often and pray for the glory of God

The construction of the temple began in 1885. Through the efforts of Ekaterina Ivanovna Khrennikova, a merchant, the future head of the city of Lipetsk Mitrofan Alekseevich Klyuev, a merchant Feodosiy Ivanovich Bolkhovitinov. The building in the pseudo-Russian style was erected by the famous architect I.P. Mashkov at the prison castle in Lipetsk in 1890. The church was consecrated in the name of Nicholas the Wonderworker. The temple had a rather powerful belfry, and the largest bell, arranged in one of its domes, weighed 7 tons. After the revolution of 1917, the Prison Square, on which the temple was located, was renamed Freedom Square. It is officially believed that the Nikolsky Church was closed in 1918, which follows from the certificates of the city council from 1930 and 1939, as well as from the city executive committee from 1940. At the same time, indirect documents suggest that the closure took place after February 1922, when the values ​​were removed from the churches. So, from the St. Nicholas Church on March 23, 1922, silver utensils weighing 2 pounds 5 spools of 44 shares were confiscated in the amount of 480,000 rubles. The church building was "nationalized" and in 1939 the city council informed the Voronezh regional executive committee that the church was "being used by the prison for its own needs." During the Soviet years, the temple fell into a deplorable state, in fact, it turned into ruins. In 1980 it was even supposed to be demolished, but thanks to the efforts of local historians, the church was preserved. In 1991, the ruins of the temple were returned to the believers, and on October 14, 1991, on the feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Orthodox community of the Nikolsky Church was registered. The first subbotnik to restore the church was held on April 17, 1991 by the club of voluntary restorers "Rus" with the blessing of Archpriest Peter Bogodeev. The restoration of the temple began actively in 1994. The temple was completely restored according to the surviving drawings of I.P. Mashkov through the diligence of the priest John Rakov. He also built a two-story building, which housed a Sunday school, a baptismal room, a library, a prosphora, as well as a belfry, and a landscaped area. Currently, the temple is actually located in the courtyard of a residential multi-storey building.