Add a review about the deserts of the Holy Spirit Paraklita

Sergiev Posad is famous in Russia and beyond its borders for its sacred places. Near the village of Smena, about six kilometers from the laurels, there is a remarkable spiritual place of Sergiev Posad - a desert in honor of the Holy Spirit Paraklita.

In 1858 .Tsar Alexander II in connection with the birth of his son Sergei Alexandrovich was granted land to the monks of the Gethsemane monastery at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra .In the year 1919, .as a result of the struggle between the authorities and the religion, the laurel is closed, but the hermitage, which is considered to be a labor collective, was still an operative house for another eight years . In the autumn of 1927 @ here there appears Sergei Mikhailovich Izvekov, a well-known sketish inhabitant, future patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Pimen . @.Later the monastery was abolished and a rural school was placed in it, then the club . It lasted several decades until in 1992 the . deserts were returned to the Orthodox Church and did not begin to revive . Such is the history of the famous desert .

The Paraclete's deserts are experiencing a second birth today.
Today in the Sv @ desert @.The spirit of Paraclete, existing as a parish church at the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, preserved the building of the church of St. .The spirit of the Comforter - Paraklita (mid-19th century) and the gate bell tower (border of 19-20 centuries), built by the architect Alexander Afanasyevich Latkov . The temple was built in 1861 . at its own expense by the merchant from Moscow Ivan Kirillovich Korolyov . All icons in the magnificent iconostasis of the temple recent, from the past years nothing remained . One single old icon - the icon of the Kazan Mother of God, and still in the sanctuary have escaped under the layer of plaster Paraklishovskie murals - wall images of the Mother of God, Savior and God-father with angels @ .@@

Paraclinic deserts in our days is experiencing a second birth. "Paraklit" from Greek - "spirit-comforter". Indeed, in the Deserts today, many parishioners find solace in its special blessed silence. No commercial activities are conducted in the desert, no books, candles, or icons are sold in the temple. Deserts live on the donations of parishioners

Deserts in honor of the Holy Spirit Paraklita
In the desert there is an alley with lindens, where only one person can go so that walks are silent. And behind the river monks in 1927, leaving the monastery when it was closed, planted on a cabbage field a birch and fir forest. And the monks said that as soon as the forest grows, life in the monastic skete will resume, which actually happened.

Here buses with tourists, which, of course, violate the divine tranquility of the desert are increasingly visited. But monks with humility refer to this.

At 11 km from the Paraklita desert (along the Yaroslavl highway) there are Malinniki, a picturesque area where pilgrims from all over Russia have been going to the holy sources of the Monk Sergii for more than six centuries. They were discovered by the prayers of the great old man. Today, convenient approaches to sources, bridges with sturdy steps and a beautiful ramified fence have been made. A small chapel of the chapel is erected at the top

How to reach the desert in honor of the Holy Spirit Paraklita

From the station square of Sergiev Posad to the village of Smena there is a bus number 38, and then - go south for about a kilometer walk between the garages and along the highway