Chelyabinsk is a fairly large city. Several Orthodox churches have been built here. Believers have the opportunity to visit a variety of churches in Chelyabinsk. There are not only Orthodox churches in the city. Those who profess any religion will find their like-minded people in the heart of the Southern Urals. The city has a Roman Catholic church, a synagogue, mosques, and the New Life Protestant Church.
Chelyabinsk is a city whose holy monasteries are known to many Russian Orthodox. They annually become places of pilgrimage, where parishioners come not only from the region, but from all over the country. Many churches in the city are being restored and restored, some have been rebuilt.
Chelyabinsk diocese
She is part of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Chelyabinsk vicariate was established in October 1908. It functioned within the Orenburg diocese. The location was determined by the male Makaryevsky Assumption Monastery. FirstBishop was Archimandrite Dionysius. As an independent Chelyabinsk diocese began to exist only ten years later.
White Church
Chelyabinsk annually receives tens of thousands of tourists. Among other attractions, many must visit holy places. There are more than fifty holy places on the territory of the city and in the region. The main church of Chelyabinsk (the Cathedral of St. Simeon Church) is known not only in the Urals. Initially, the cathedral was built as a cemetery, but at the end of the last century it was completely reconstructed. The beauty of this church of Chelyabinsk, its decor (tiled friezes and mosaic icons) made this temple one of the main attractions of the city. In St. Simeon's Cathedral, valuable relics dating back to the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries are stored. White Church - the second name of this temple.
St. Simeon Cathedral is the only one in Chelyabinsk, within the walls of which for more than one hundred and thirty years services have not stopped for a single day. Residents of all city districts come to Belaya Tserkov. On holidays and weekends, this church in Chelyabinsk is especially crowded.
Over the years of its existence St. Simeon Cathedral has been enriched with a large number of unique shrines. It is here that a piece of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord is located, which is embedded in the holy Crucifixion. Believers pray before him with reverence.
In the icons of St. Sergius of Radonezh and Seraphim of Sarov, the elders of Optina, Job of Pochaev and others alsorelics of the holy relics are kept. There are a lot of ancient prayer images in this temple, from which, as the parishioners say, special grace comes. These icons are real rarities of Orthodoxy.
One of the revered images of the Mother of God is considered the icon of the "Quick Hearer". It is to her that believers turn with requests for spiritual insight, for healing from various diseases.
Trinity Church
Chelyabinsk is proud of its temples. Trinity Orthodox Church is located in the very center of the heart of the Southern Urals. Initially, the parish, built of wood, was called Nikolsky. Until 1768, it was located at the intersection of Bolshaya and Sibirskaya streets. Then the temple found a new location, and from that moment the church received its current name. By 1799, there were more than five and a half thousand parishioners in the flock.
Most revered churches
In 1907, in Chelyabinsk, on the site of an old chapel, the Alexander Nevsky Church was built. This beautiful one-story church was built in the neo-Russian style. It was richly decorated with red brick decor. The temple itself was thirteen-domed. However, during the Soviet years, the church stopped working. Within its walls, one after another, various institutions were housed, until in the eighties the building was transferred to the Philharmonic. An organ was installed in the temple, and the building began to function as a chamber music hall. This continued until 2013. Today the temple is included in the list of cultural heritage of Chelyabinsk.
On an artificial hillcity in the Traktorozavodsky district there is a very beautiful church built of red brick. We are talking about the temple of Basil the Great. Inside, you can pray to the icon of the healer Panteleimon and the Mother of God "Three Hands", which are considered relatively new: they were created at the beginning of the twentieth century.
