Blagoveshchensk: residents demand the restoration of the “Shadrinsky Cathedral”

Residents of Blagoveshchensk opposed the construction of the Church of the Albazin Icon of the Mother of God in the park at the intersection of Lenin and Chaikovsky streets. They would like to see a completely different cathedral here.

On May 5, it became known that the residents of Blagoveshchensk against the construction of a temple in the park at the intersection of Lenin (formerly Bolshaya) and Tchaikovsky (formerly Craft), where before the revolution there was a convent.

The reason is atypical: the townspeople would like to see revived cathedral, blown up in 1936 (and since 2007 they have been collecting signatures for restoration of this particular building), and the diocese is building the temple in a completely different way project.

“ The snow-white church will gracefully fit into the square, which will be completely preserved in its original form and will be called "Albazinsky" by the name of the temple ", - say the representatives of the diocese.

The protesters at the same time remind that for many years they collected money for the restoration of Troitsky cathedral, built according to the project of Semyon Shadrin and known in the city as "Shadrinsky Cathedral". The reconstruction of this temple in 2007 was included in the municipal target program for the development of tourism in Blagoveshchensk. For the sake of recovery of this building in 2009 the cinema was demolished "Amur", and in 2011 a bow cross was installed in the square in memory of the destroyed cathedral. Then, in 2011, the community of St. Life-Giving Trinity. On the website of the diocese until the fall of 2019, they collected donations to the Trinity Cathedral. However, now the diocese is raising money and building a completely different building is the temple of the Albazin Icon of the Mother of God. In the spring of 2019, the parish was also re-registered - as parish of the temple of the Albazin Icon of the Mother of God "The Word Flesh was".

“ We are unable to undo the past and prevent barbaric destruction of the whole monastery complex, which was located in near the intersection of Lenin and Chaikovsky streets, the former Handicraft Square. We are not we can restore the Cathedral of the Life-Giving Trinity, which was built by a merchant Semyon Savvich Shadrin. Now, for a number of reasons, this is not possible, but we can and must breathe new life into the remaining corner of the earth, transferred Blagoveshchensk diocese, so that he again works for the benefit and cultural the revival of our city ,” was written on the website of the diocese in October 2019.

On April 27, 2020, the local bishop consecrated construction of a new church.

Sources

• Amur local historians are outraged by the construction of a "false temple" instead of the Shadrin Cathedral // Amurskaya Pravda. May 5, 2020