Temple of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon
Initially, the place on which the church stands was an appanage royal estate near St. Petersburg.
Address:
Fermskoye Shosse, 36, bldg. 5-a
Telephone:
301-85-76
During the reign of Nikolai Pavlovich, in 1827, the Specific Landowning School with an adjoining farm was established here.
It was on the site of the St. Petersburg appanage farm that the House of Charity for the Mentally Ill arose in 1870, that is, already under Emperor Alexander II Nikolaevich. However, both the hospital and the temple consider his son and successor Alexander III Alexandrovich as their founder, who wished “to commemorate his recovery from a serious illness with a good deed.” The mayor, Adjutant General Trepov, pointed out to him the deplorable situation of the mentally ill in the capital, and a decision was made to establish a nursing home. The Tsarevich allocated 700 thousand rubles for the construction of a hospital and a church attached to it, and subsequently 20 thousand were allocated annually for their maintenance. The design of the church, like the hospital, was entrusted to the famous architect Academician I.V.
Storm. The church was founded on 12.VII.1870. The consecration of the temple, in the presence of the Tsarevich, took place on October 23 (November 5), 1871. The temple icon of the holy healer Panteleimon was brought to the church from Athos from the Panteleimon Monastery. The church building was organically integrated into the complex of buildings of the House of Charity, being, as befits a temple, its compositional center. After the death of the highest founder - Sovereign Emperor Alexander III - an icon of his heavenly patron St. was placed in the church.
Alexander Nevsky. On July 16, 1918, the church became a parish.
In 1929, the church was closed and destroyed. The belfry and dome of the church were demolished, the icon of St. Panteleimon of the Athonite script, the iconostasis was destroyed, the choir was destroyed. Fortunately, the interior decoration of the temple has been preserved. After the destruction of the church, the building housed first a club, then a warehouse for the psychiatric hospital named after. Skvortsova-Stepanova. As a result of two fires and due to the lack of a proper roof, the building was destroyed by 70%. In the fall of 1990, the temple building was handed over to believers.
His Eminence Metropolitan John (Snychev) appointed priest Alexy Masyuk as rector of the Church of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon. On January 4, 1991, the Charter of the Parish of the Church of St. Martyr was registered. Panteleimon in Udelnaya. The restoration of the temple began. The first service was celebrated on Kyriopascha 1991. With God's help, the Church was restored, including the icon of St. Vmch. Panteleimon, which came from the collection of icons of the Prince Vladimir Cathedral. The “final chord” of the reconstruction of the temple can be considered the reconstruction of the monument to the Founding Tsar Alexander III, destroyed in 1936, by the parishioners. The monument was consecrated on November 2, 2007, on the day of remembrance of the Founding Tsar.
It was on the site of the St. Petersburg appanage farm that the House of Charity for the Mentally Ill arose in 1870, that is, already under Emperor Alexander II Nikolaevich. However, both the hospital and the temple consider his son and successor Alexander III Alexandrovich as their founder, who wished “to commemorate his recovery from a serious illness with a good deed.” The mayor, Adjutant General Trepov, pointed out to him the deplorable situation of the mentally ill in the capital, and a decision was made to establish a nursing home. The Tsarevich allocated 700 thousand rubles for the construction of a hospital and a church attached to it, and subsequently 20 thousand were allocated annually for their maintenance. The design of the church, like the hospital, was entrusted to the famous architect Academician I.V.
Storm. The church was founded on 12.VII.1870. The consecration of the temple, in the presence of the Tsarevich, took place on October 23 (November 5), 1871. The temple icon of the holy healer Panteleimon was brought to the church from Athos from the Panteleimon Monastery. The church building was organically integrated into the complex of buildings of the House of Charity, being, as befits a temple, its compositional center. After the death of the highest founder - Sovereign Emperor Alexander III - an icon of his heavenly patron St. was placed in the church.
Alexander Nevsky. On July 16, 1918, the church became a parish.
In 1929, the church was closed and destroyed. The belfry and dome of the church were demolished, the icon of St. Panteleimon of the Athonite script, the iconostasis was destroyed, the choir was destroyed. Fortunately, the interior decoration of the temple has been preserved. After the destruction of the church, the building housed first a club, then a warehouse for the psychiatric hospital named after. Skvortsova-Stepanova. As a result of two fires and due to the lack of a proper roof, the building was destroyed by 70%. In the fall of 1990, the temple building was handed over to believers.
His Eminence Metropolitan John (Snychev) appointed priest Alexy Masyuk as rector of the Church of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon. On January 4, 1991, the Charter of the Parish of the Church of St. Martyr was registered. Panteleimon in Udelnaya. The restoration of the temple began. The first service was celebrated on Kyriopascha 1991. With God's help, the Church was restored, including the icon of St. Vmch. Panteleimon, which came from the collection of icons of the Prince Vladimir Cathedral. The “final chord” of the reconstruction of the temple can be considered the reconstruction of the monument to the Founding Tsar Alexander III, destroyed in 1936, by the parishioners. The monument was consecrated on November 2, 2007, on the day of remembrance of the Founding Tsar.
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