Righteous Lazarus Church Pskov-Caves Monastery
   Photo: Church of the Righteous Lazarus Pskov-Caves Monastery

One of the most famous monasteries in Russia - Pskov-Caves Monastery, located seventy kilometers from the city of Pskov. The monastery rebuilt into a deep ravine where the brook flows Kamenetz. From afar, the buildings of the monastery is almost not visible. Hidden behind the stone walls of the fortress, behind the high slopes of the coasts, the monastery suddenly revealed in all its glory admiring audience. On the territory of the monastery and the church is Lazarus, named in memory of evangelical Lazarus of the Four, the resurrected Jesus Christ, after he in the tomb four days.

Modest and unassuming Lazarevsky temple was built over a long period, its construction took eight years. It was built between 1792 and 1800 years. The church and the adjacent building built with Archimandrite Peter (Borodino). The church of the Righteous Lazarus - built of stone, has two floors, one-domed with a glazed veranda - is located in the north-eastern part of the monastery, in front of the Cathedral of the Assumption. The church is set in the basement. Basement rooms have exactly the same size, overlap Korobov vault identified in the girth arches installed in the center. Plan of the ground floor is exactly the plan the basement, but a small tent which blocked Korobov vault at the northern end of the wall.

The temple is located on the lower area of ​​the monastery next to the "bloody way" (the name of the descent from the church of St. Nicholas in the lower area). The facade of the building from the north-east side has access to the economic court and out of here in a two-part basement. Entrance to the temple - with the main facade, has access to the lower area, or through the two chapel standing beside. The only decoration of the church - a baroque head, crowned with a faceted drum with a pedestal. The porch, which overlooks the main facade, has a simple gable. Temple walls are mainly from the plate and only partly of brick. They plastered and has a pink coloring. The foundation of the church - Crushed, tiled panels and boards. Part of the head from the bottom with a blue patch with gold stars, gilded, and the upper part of the head. Dimensions of the church - not very large: in length it is twenty-two meters, the width is measured at twelve meters.

Previously, when the monastic church was located a hospital and later in a house facing Abbot, due to, the fact that the former rectory building in 1848 was destroyed by fire.

The church entertaining fate. It helped to heal souls of the patients who were treated in the hospital of the monastery, there was a time, when the walls of the temple has a small diocesan factory producing candles, and in 1849 the abbot lived here. Since 1883, it housed a hotel, arranged for pilgrims pilgrims. And in the 90s of the last century - the monastery archives and library. In 1967 it was carried out current repairs of the temple. Do repair work inside the temple, also painted the church.

In the church, Lazarus clock is read incessantly Psalter. Invisible to pray, but it supports the healing significantly, it keeps those for whom day and night monks pray God. On Kathisma here every day, repeatedly committed commemoration of the living and the deceased Orthodox Christians recorded in the monastery synodic.

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Righteous Lazarus Church Pskov-Caves Monastery