The Murom maiden Resurrection Monastery, according to local legends, arose in ancient times on the site of the country princely palace of the Murom saints Peter and Fevronia (deceased in 1228). Although not preserved documentary information regarding the time of its foundation, it is still possible to assume that the monastery was founded no later than the 16th century. The patrons of the monastery were the Murom merchants of the living room of the hundred Cherkasovs, on whose funds stone construction was carried out in mid-16th century I century According to church tradition, the nuns of this monastery were engaged in facial sewing. The shrouds and covers of the 17th-century maiden Resurrection Monastery have been preserved. In 1764, by decree of Catherine II, the monastery was liquidated and the Resurrection parish was established, which existed until the 1920s. IN Soviet time Church buildings were occupied by various secular organizations. IN last years- children's sport school, under the dome of the cathedral there was a boxing ring. In 1998, a decision was made to revive the nunnery. Currently it has been resumed church services, the monastery is being revived.
The Murom Monastery of the Annunciation was founded in 1553 by Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible on the site of the temple in the name of the Annunciation, erected, according to legend, by the ancestor of the Murom princes, Yaroslav Svyatoslavich. In 1616 the buildings of the monastery were destroyed almost to the ground, and the royal gifts were plundered by the Poles. Throughout the 17th century. the monastery was reborn from ruins. His mentor was the famous Murom merchant, merchant of the Moscow living room hundred Tarasy Borisovich Tsvetnov. He rebuilt the Annunciation Cathedral in 1664. In 1792, the brethren survived a devastating fire, but the stone buildings and main shrines survived. During Napoleon's invasion, it became a shelter for the main Russian shrines - the Iverskaya and Our Lady of Vladimir. View from the fence of the Resurrection Monastery after sunset.
Moore. Church in honor of Ksma and Damian
Murom Resurrection Monastery
The first news about the Assumption Church dates back to the second half of the 16th century. It is mentioned along with other churches in the hundredth book of the city of Murom in 1574. It was built in stone instead of wooden buildings on this site in 1790 by the Murom merchant D. Likhonin. Rebuilt in 1829. In 1835, a stone bell tower was erected. Closed in 1940. Transferred to the Vladimir diocese in December 1999. The temple is operational. Restoration work is underway.
Spaso-Preobrazhensky monastery city of Murom - the oldest monastery of the Holy Orthodox Rus'. (Only the Kiev Pechersk Lavra is older than it). In the 1930s. the monastery was occupied by the military department. Spring 1995 military unit left the monastery premises. On April 23 - the day of the Resurrection of Christ - the solemn consecration of the territory of the monastery took place.
Moore. Smolensk Church
Moore. Church of the Assumption Holy Mother of God
Moore. Peasant Square
The Church of St. Nicholas Naberezhny (sometimes also called the Church of St. Nicholas Mokroy) in Murom was built in 1700-1717 at the expense of the Moscow priest Dmitry Khristoforov, who decided in this way to perpetuate the memory of his father, who served here in a wooden church. Whether this wooden church burned down or was dismantled due to disrepair is unknown. According to legend, formerly on the site of the temple here, on the high bank of the Oka, stood wooden palace Ivan the Terrible. In 1992, the temple, which had suffered from time and neglect, was returned to believers and restored. Now services are taking place in the renovated temple, and its bright silhouette adorns the high bank of the Oka River. During high water, the water comes under the base of the hill on which the temple is located.
In the Murom Spassky Monastery
Gate Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the Murom Spassky Monastery
Murom Church of the Presentation of the Lord
It was built in 1795 at the expense of the Murom merchants Zvorykins. Rebuilt in 1888-92. On May 31, 1929, the plenum of the City Council initiated a petition to close the church. Closed in January 1930. In the 1980s - 90s. The temple housed a workshop for making monuments. In December 1999, it was transferred to the Vladimir-Suzdal diocese.
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
Built in 1700-1717. on the site of the wooden church of Elijah the Prophet on a hill above the Oka, in Merezhnaya Sloboda. The relics of righteous Juliania Lazarevskaya, revered throughout Russia, rest in the temple. In 1999, the descendants of the saint came to Murom - the family Orthodox priest from France, they brought the image of righteous Juliana.
Moore. Monument to Peter and Fevronia
Moore. Memorial cross on the site of St. George's Church
One of the most interesting sights of Murom, which unfortunately has not survived to this day, is St. George’s Church, built on the northeastern edge of the city in Kozhevniki. For more than a hundred years from its construction until the mid-seventeenth century, the church was wooden. A wealthy Murom resident, Sidor Lopatin, allocated funds for the construction of a stone church, and by 1651 a five-domed church, with a refectory and a bell tower, was built. In the thirties of the twentieth century, the church was closed and destroyed.
Log house over a spring in the name of St. Blessed Peter and Fevronia of Murom
Love and Fidelity
Moore. Uspensky (Shtapsky) ravine
The origin of the name “Shtapskaya” is usually associated with the headquarters that was once located behind the ravine; At the same time, stunning of the last consonant in the word headquarters became part of the speech tradition. Assumption - after the name of the temple on the bank of the ravine (pictured on the left)
Sunset on the Oka near Murom
At the spring of Ilya Muromets in Karacharovo
According to legend, the spring was knocked out by the heroic horse of Ilya Muromets with the first gallop on the way to Kyiv city. There is a chapel and a bathhouse nearby. Pilgrims and tourists come... Ilya Muromets was officially canonized in 1643 among sixty-nine other saints Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
Ilya Muromets
Cross in memory of Ilya Muromets in Karacharovo
Moore. February Lane
One of the most interesting sights of Murom, which unfortunately has not survived to this day, is St. George’s Church, built on the northeastern edge of the city in Kozhevniki. For more than a hundred years from its construction until the mid-seventeenth century, the church was wooden. A wealthy Murom resident, Sidor Lopatin, allocated funds for the construction of a stone church, and by 1651 a five-domed church, with a refectory and a bell tower, was built. In the thirties of the twentieth century, the church was closed and destroyed. In the photo on the left is the rectory.
Murom Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery. Chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and Elijah the Prophet
View of the Sretenskaya Church
Murom Kosmodemyansk Church
A special place in the architecture of Murom monuments is occupied by the Kosmodemyansk Church, built on the high bank of the Oka between 1556 and 1565. She is one of the most unique structures Russian architecture first half XVI century. According to legend, it was built on the spot where from July 10 to July 20, 1552, Ivan the Terrible’s tent was located during the Kazan campaign and from where he watched the crossing of Russian troops across the Oka. Apparently, the construction was carried out by an artel led by the famous architect Postnik Yakovlev. This is confirmed by some architectural details that are also characteristic of other buildings built by this architect - St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow and the Annunciation Cathedral in Kazan.
Moore. Temple in honor of Seraphim of Sarov
Temple St. Seraphim Sarovsky (canonized in 1903) was built in the new district of Murom in the early 2000s. The ceremonial consecration took place on August 22, 2005, the ceremony was performed by Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal Evlogy. In the temple there is a revered image of St. Seraphim with a particle of the saint’s relics (found 70 years after his death, in 1903) in a pectoral cross. This icon was painted in 2003 by the sisters of the Seraphim-Diveyevo monastery and given to the Murom Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery in memory of the 100th anniversary of the glorification of the reverend elder.
Murom Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery(“Spassky on Bor”) is one of ancient monasteries in the northeast of Rus'. Belongs to the Vladimir-Suzdal diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. This monastery is one of the main attractions of Murom, which guests visit.
The modern appearance of the monastery ensemble includes the following objects: Spassky Cathedral, Church of the Intercession, Holy Gates, Abbot's Chambers, Ossuary and Necropolis, Fraternal Corps, Sergievskaya gate church, Figure of Saint Elijah of Muromets. Among other objects of the monastery there are many “utility” buildings. The monastery farm has chickens, ducks, sheep, goats, dogs and horses. The bakery employs about 30 people. Every day 6 tons of rye and white bread. Next to the St. George's Chapel there is a beautiful flowering pond, in the center of which grows magic flower Lotus.
In addition to the chronicle story about princely feud 1096, it is assumed that in the first quarter of the 13th century, Saint Prince Peter took monastic vows here. In memory of this, to the right of the main entrance to the monastery there is a bas-relief to the holy spouses Peter and Fevronia of Murom, and behind it there is an icon with scenes from their Lives. It is also known that at the end of the 15th century, Fyodor Boretsky, the son of the Novgorod posadnitsa Martha, was tonsured at the monastery. The western, main, entrance to the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery crowns gate church St. Kirill Belozersky. Interesting modern paintings on the entrance arch: from right side shows the entry into Murom of the holy Prince Gleb and scenes from “The Tale of the Establishment of Christianity in Murom”; on the left side are the Most Holy Theotokos and two elders - Saints Seraphim of Sarov and Anthony Groshovnik: both visited Murom, together they collected funds here for the construction of the Church of Saints Zosima and Savvaty in the Sarov Monastery. Saint Anthony Groshovnik lived part of his life near the Spassky Monastery. Having lost his sight, he acquired the gift of spiritual vision, possessing the gift of clairvoyance. The ancient Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery, like Murom itself, was formerly made of wood; only stone buildings on its territory have survived to this day. Transfiguration Cathedral was built in the middle of the 16th century at the expense of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. The four-pillar, almost square in plan, with five helmet-shaped domes, the temple was not significantly rebuilt and is the only one in the city that has survived to this day in a little changed form.
IN late XVII centuries in the monastery next to the cathedral are being built the rector's chambers and the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary with money from Barsanuphius, Metropolitan of Sarsk and Podonsk, who came from a family of Murom townspeople, the Chertkovs. The bell tower was added to the church in 1757 with the money of the Murom merchant P. Samarin, who donated a 120-pound bell for it. Once upon a time, on the ground floor of the Church of the Intercession there was a “bakery and flour mill”; now the temple occupies both floors.
In the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary there are and are especially revered the shrines of the monastery - the miraculous icon of “Our Lady of the Quick to Hear” from Athonite script late XIX century, sculptural reconstruction of the face of St. Elijah of Muromets(wood carving by S.A. Subbotin based on the results of research by S.A. Nikitin).
The incorruptible relics of the saint themselves are located in the Kiveo-Pechora Lavra. The hero was canonized among her other associates in 1643. Information about his life is drawn from history and folk legends- we do not find his name in the chronicles, but in Western European sagas of the 12th-13th centuries a certain Ilya from Russia is mentioned.
The remains of the hero were examined repeatedly. Its results allow us, with good reason, to assume that the Monk Elijah of Murom is an epic hero. The height of the saint at that time was truly heroic - 177 cm, the warrior was almost a head taller than his contemporaries who lived in the 12th century. When examining the relics in lumbar region In addition to the curvature of the spine, they also discovered a pathology of its structure - the presence of additional processes in the vertebrae, which could cause pinched nerves and, as a result, immobility. Saint Elijah of Muromets died at the age of about 50 years in 1188 (?) from a massive wound in the heart area. Other intravital wounds were found on his body in the area of the collarbone and ribs. The Church celebrates the Saint's Day of Remembrance on January 1 (New Art). Warriors are not only patronized by Saint Elijah of Muromets. Near the main gate of the monastery stands Chapel in the name of the Great Martyr George the Victorious. It commemorates warriors - natives of the Murom land who died in recent military conflicts.
Picturesque monastery territory- green lawns, blooming flower beds around a man-made pond with lotuses, mesmerizing view of the Trans-Oka region from gate temple St. Sergius Radonezh(2006). After the revival of the monastery in 1996 (it had been closed since 1918), its territory had to be redeveloped: the cemetery was moved to the northeastern part. It was impossible to determine the places of previous burials. To honor the memory of the monks and contributors to the monastery who were once buried here, at the end of the 20th century a memorial chapel-ossuary was built, where all the remains found in the old cemetery were transferred.
Nowadays the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery is a spiritual, cultural and Education Centre Muroma. On its territory, the Theological School was revived, an Orthodox gymnasium was opened, and a Pilgrimage Center operates.
Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery (Murom) is located on Lakina Street 1-a. From the center you can walk along Lenin Street to the sign “Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery 300 meters”, then 300 meters along Lakina Street, and from the Smolensk Church - along Pervomaiskaya Street or down the embankment.
Murom Orthodox Gymnasium of St. Elijah Muromets
In July 2013, an Orthodox gymnasium for gifted children opened in Murom. It got its name from the Murom saint and epic hero Elijah Muromets; this became one of the key events of the year for all Murom residents. The opening ceremony of the gymnasium, according to tradition, was attended by the wife of the Russian Prime Minister Svetlana Medvedeva and the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of Russia Sergei Stepashin. Educational institution designed for 150-170 students, and classes for 15-25 people.
The construction company developed an original solution for the structural part of the project, which made it possible to fully implement the complex architectural design of the gymnasium building: the original roof imitates the domed shape of the temple, the total height of the attic floor “under the ridge” was 9 meters.
Cross in memory of Ilya Muromets in Karacharovo
Ilya Muromets was officially canonized in 1643 among sixty-nine saints of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. A cross in his honor was erected in the village of Karacharovo.
The Karacharovo microdistrict can be reached from the city center by city buses numbered 10, 10A, 19, 17, 17L.
Microdistrict Karacharovo - Temple (church) of Guria, Samona and Aviva
The church was built in 1844-1845. Restoration work was carried out in the 90s of the twentieth century. In the church there is an icon of St. Elijah of Murom, and the relics of the holy hero-hero are buried there. Near the church there is a mass grave of peasants from the village of Karacharovo who died in the plague of 1603.
The Church of Guria, Simon and Aviva is located on Karacharovskaya Street. City buses 10, 10A, 19, 17, 17L go to the Karacharovo microdistrict from the center.
Microdistrict Karacharovo - Chapel at the spring of Ilya Muromets
The spring located here was knocked out, according to legend, by the heroic horse of Ilya Muromets with the first gallop on the way to Kyiv City. There is a chapel and a bathhouse nearby. Pilgrims and tourists often come here. Ilya Muromets was officially canonized in 1643 among sixty-nine saints of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. In the background are Oka and Trinity Church.
This landmark of Murom is located on the street. Priokskaya. City buses 10, 10A, 19, 17, 17L go to the Karacharovo microdistrict.
Murom Church of the Presentation of the Lord
It was built in 1795 at the expense of the Murom merchants Zvorykins. Rebuilt in 1888-92. On May 31, 1929, the plenum of the City Council initiated a petition to close the church. Closed in January 1930. In the 1980s - 90s. The temple housed a workshop for making monuments. In December 1999, it was transferred to the Vladimir-Suzdal diocese.
The church is located on Karl Marx Street, no. 55, Murom.
Murom Annunciation Monastery
In the center of Murom, not far from the main square of the city, is the Annunciation Monastery (Krasnoarmeyskaya St., 16). The monasteries stand on ancient land Vyshny Gorodische. Once upon a time there was a courtyard of Prince Yaroslav Svyatoslavich. His relics, as well as those of his two sons, Mikhail and Fyodor, now rest in the cathedral of the Annunciation Monastery, built in the mid-16th century. A tombstone from the grave of the holy princes is also kept there, revered in the city as helping to heal the sick. It stands against the wall in the vestibule of the cathedral, to the left of the entrance to the chapel of the Apostle John the Theologian.
The especially revered shrines of the Annunciation Monastery are not only the relics of the holy prince-baptizers, but also miraculous icons- the image of the Mother of God of Iverskaya from 1688 (to the right of the iconostasis in the Annunciation chapel) and the image of the Mother of God of Kozelshchanskaya of the 19th century, located to the left of the iconostasis in the chapel of the Apostle John the Theologian - an extension of the 17th century. Paintings inside it for the most part modern, like the iconostasis itself, which represents one local tier.
In the Annunciation Cathedral, the main iconostasis in the Baroque style of 1797 has been preserved, as well as ancient icons from the mid-16th-17th centuries: on the western wall of the temple there is an icon " Last Judgment"and next to it are the images of St. Nicholas and St. John the Warrior. These images were painted in Murom itself, in the icon-painting workshops at the Annunciation Monastery. One of the famous Murom iconographers of the 17th century worked in them. early XVIII century, Alexander Ivanovich Kazantsev. His icons are now kept in the collection of the Murom Historical and Art Museum.
It was possible to preserve the decoration of the Annunciation Cathedral due to the fact that Soviet era the temple was not closed, with the exception of 1940-1942, and was the only operating temple in Murom. The Annunciation Monastery itself, like all other monastic monasteries in the city, was closed during Soviet times. This happened in 1921. In its cell buildings there were apartments for the townspeople, and in the gateway Stefani Church of the mid-17th century there was an archive.
Ancient burials have been preserved around the Annunciation Cathedral. Among them is the grave of one of the abbots of the monastery, Archimandrite Alexy (1814-1877), in the world of Andrei Polisadov, the great-great-grandfather of the poet Andrei Voznesensky, who therefore dedicated “Andrei Polisadov” to him.
The Annunciation Cathedral stands on the site of the ancient wooden Annunciation Church, erected through the efforts of Prince Constantine himself. Under Ivan the Terrible, by royal command, the Annunciation Church was rebuilt in stone by 1563. This is how it has survived to this day in a slightly rebuilt form. After the devastation of the city during the Time of Troubles, the cathedral in mid-17th century century, it was reconstructed at the expense of the merchant Tarasy Borisov Tsvetnov, the organizer of the neighboring Trinity Monastery. It is believed that Tarasius himself ended his days as a monk of the Annunciation Monastery.
The Murom Holy Annunciation Monastery is located on the street. Krasnoarmeyskaya, 16.
Temple of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (Nikola Mokry) in Murom aka St. Nicholas Church
Nikolo-Embankment Church(or Church of St. Nicholas the Mokroy) - Orthodox church Built in 1717 by the Vladimir-Suzdal diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Built on the site of a wooden church of the 16th century, near the “sovereign courtyard” and the “green courtyard” of the 16th century, which had fallen into disrepair. The church is located on the high bank of the Oka River and until recently was the central attraction of Murom - its golden domes are decorated with many paintings, posters, calendars, which are sold in souvenir shops in the city.
The architecture of the St. Nicholas Church was a continuation and development of the traditions of Murom architecture. The plan is almost square, completed in the east by a semicircle of a three-part apse. The main volume is elongated vertically, two-height, covered with a closed vault on which rests five blind drums with onion-shaped heads, Bottom part drums are decorated with circular kokoshniks.
Below at the foot of the mountain flows the Nikolsky spring, where, according to legend, Nicholas the Wonderworker himself appeared several times. Nearby, in a ravine, there is a chapel in honor of the “Life-Giving Spring” icon of the Mother of God.
Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker has always been especially revered as the patron saint of those traveling on water and trading. The life of the merchant Murom has long been connected with the river. In ancient times, the Volga trade route passed along the Oka River, and even until the 20th century, goods were mainly transported along rivers. On the coastal street of Murom, life used to be in full swing: private piers were located here, goods were unloaded, deals were concluded, and city residents came here to work. St. Nicholas has always been revered in Murom; three churches were dedicated to him. Only the St. Nicholas Embankment Church has survived to this day. Today the relics of the holy righteous Ulyaniya Lazarevskaya, a revered Murom saint who died in early XVII century and buried earlier in the village of Lazarevo near Murom.
From St. Nicholas Church, the Kremlin Mountain is clearly visible, so named because the city Kremlin once stood on it.
A wooden church in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh, which is a monument of wooden architecture of the 18th century, was brought to the territory of the monastery from the neighboring Melenkovsky district.
Temple of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God
Temple of the Smolensk Icon Mother of God– current Orthodox Church, located on the embankment of the Oka River in the city of Murom. It was erected in 1804 on the site of its wooden predecessor, which was destroyed by fire. The construction was financed by a local merchant. Later the church was expanded, a parish and a bell tower were added.
In 1922, the church’s valuables were confiscated, allegedly to help the starving people of the Volga region. 24 kilograms of gold, a pound of silver and other valuables were taken from the church. The building was given over to an exhibition hall and concerts of the academic choir. In 1995, the Temple of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God was returned to the Orthodox Church.
Holy Trinity Church
On the outskirts of the city of Murom there is the village of Karacharovo - this is the birthplace of the epic hero Ilya Muromets. He became the first and only hero of the Russian epic, whom the Orthodox Church canonized after his death.
The Murom land is rich in shrines that have long been revered by the people: churches, chapels, monasteries and temples. One of them is the Holy Trinity Church, built in Karacharovo in the 12th century on a hill on the banks of the Oka River. At first the Trinity Church was wooden. According to legend, Ilya Muromets himself laid three huge oak trees at its foundation, which he himself tore out and brought.
In 1828, a stone bell tower was erected next to the wooden church. It has three tiers, on top, in the center of the gilded dome, there is a cross. The oldest Holy Trinity Church is still operational, despite the fact that work on its restoration is constantly underway.
Orthodox believers from all over Russia and other countries come here regularly to pray and touch the real shrines of the Russian land.
