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At the mention of the town of Sergiev Posad (in the past - Zagorsk), imagination at once draws the temples, churches, monasteries, sources, Trinity-Sergius Lavra ... and Elias Church (in the name of the Holy Prophet. Elijah), an ancient city temple, situated on a picturesque hill in the cellarer of the pond, in the old part of Sergiev Posad, near the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

Church of the Holy. prophet Elijah is very beautiful, with elegant proportions, dark red walls, whitewashed portals and platbands on the windows, gras tsioznym roof silhouette, slim hipped roof bell tower and a cozy domestic interiors.

For formed in 1610 near the Trinity-Sergius Lavra Musketeers and Pushkarskaya Sloboda, after the Polish-Lithuanian invaders lifted the siege, for the cherished desire of Dionysius of Radonezh was built wooden church (1645) in the name of the icon of Our Lady of Kazan with the consecrated chapel in honor of Elijah the Prophet. Because of the poor condition in 1727, the Ilyinsky chapel is dismantled and put up a frame of the church of Elijah, consecrated by Archimandrite Lavra Varlaam. In 1746 there was a fire that destroyed the Kazan temple, the church of Elijah and part of the monastery.

For five years the chapel stood on the site of the Kazan temple. In 1752 a new temple was erected in Kazan, which in 1958, because of its dilapidation, was dismantled and replaced in its place by a cross.

One-headed church (already made of stone) in the style of the Pereslavl baroque by the works of parishioners was built in 1765-1773 . at it - a refectory and bell tower (rebuilt in 1876-1878 .) . This town church, consecrated in 1773 . head monastery hieromonk Paul (cereals), - the only one that was not closed in soviet time and was not ruined . It was here that parishioners of Zagorsk came who remained at their will . In the Ilin church from 1928 . and until his death served as Archpriest Alexander Maslov, the only serving priest during the Great Patriotic War, awarded in 1938 .the right to wear a miter . Here the prayers were offered by the monks of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, the survivors .

The church in the name of the Holy Prophet Elijah is very beautiful, with graceful proportions, dark red walls, whitewashed portals and platbands on the windows , a graceful silhouette of the roof, a graceful tent of the bell tower and a cozy interior interior.

Magnificent iconostases of the chapels in the name of St. Dimitry of Rostov and in honor of the Iberian icon of the Virgin, a five-tiered gilt iconostasis with cornices and columns, the vaults of the temple and its walls were painted in 19 century master craftsmen artel Ivan Malyshev, who was the head of the temple from 1840 to 1880 . Malyshev's zeal in the temple floor is laid out of fireproof tiles .Specially for the temple of Elijah the Prophet was written the icon of the martyr Nikolai, in honor of Nikolai Benevolensky, who served as a priest there from 1938 to 1940 ., in 1940 . arrested and deceased in the camps of Karaganda region .

Today in Ilinsky church daily worship services are performed. Priests of the church spiritually guard PTU-22, a retirement home, a boarding house for mentally retarded children (weekly worship services in the chapel of the Great Martyr Panteleimon). There is a library and a Sunday school for parishioners at the church ..

How to get to the church in the name of the Holy Prophet Elijah of God

From the Trinity-Sergius Lavra to the church you can walk - it is literally two steps from the monastery, on the street Kuzminova, 1/5.