Physicists and clergy: a temple where graduates of Moscow State University serve. Schedule of services in the Church of St. Andrew Rublev in Ramenki Michurinsky by Andrei Rublev

The Temple of Andrei Rublev in Ramenki is unique in many respects. It was opened in honor of the artist. Andrei Rublev received worldwide recognition as a true master of icon painting. His name is inscribed in the history of world culture. During Soviet times, this creative person managed to bring many educated people to the Church. The temple is also unique in that most of its employees are graduates of Moscow State University.

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The non-standard approach of physicists to the issue of building a temple makes it possible to raise non-standard questions in the classes of Sunday School and the Youth Movement.

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Andrey Rublev himself received the honor of being canonized as a reverend only in 1988. For the first time in the history of the Church, a temple was to be erected in honor of an artist. The idea of ​​building a temple in Moscow arose in 1994. A wide variety of architectural projects were proposed, but due to their standard nature they were rejected. Only after Mikhail Filippov proposed his own vision of the future temple did preparatory work begin.

By 1996, only a small chapel stood in Moscow. A temple-chapel was erected in its place. His project was proposed by D.S. Sokolov and A.N. Obolensky. But already in 2000 it had to be moved to a new location in order to free up the site for the construction of the Andrei Rublev Temple. The lighting in the new location took place on Christmas Day 2001.

Directly construction began in 2008. Already in the winter of 2010, the monastery was consecrated. However, the improvement of the temple lasted for several more years. According to the approved project, only the lower, baptismal church was erected. It is similar to the Cathedral of the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery, where the Monk Andrei Rublev was buried. The large semi-circular building is surrounded by covered staircases and arcades to give the temple the appearance of an ancient city. At the same time, the overall appearance is a fragile unity of grace and severity, classics and the Middle Ages.

For the construction of the upper temple, a new project was developed and adopted. Construction in Moscow is still underway . Currently the church operates:

• charity group;
• temperance society;
• Sunday school for children and adults;
• youth organization.

The temple is open to parishioners.

Construction

The construction of the church is carried out solely on donations from parishioners. At the moment, there are not enough funds to complete all construction and finishing work. But the ministers are intensely praying for the successful completion of the work begun. They are confident that everything is the will of the Lord. At the right time, funds will be collected. Concerned parishioners transfer money to a bank account or purchase special personalized bricks. They can be ordered directly from the church. They will indicate the name of the person himself, and, if desired, the name of his relatives or friends.

While scaffolding has been erected around the temple, most services and events are held in the wooden Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, located next door. The rector himself, Archpriest Andrei Galukhin, does not hide the fact that he tries not to hire many workers. He believes that three monolithic workers and four masons are enough to get the job done quickly. At the same time, he does not have to exceed the budget for paying craftsmen.

Sunday School

Has been operating successfully for 10 years sunday school ladybug. It provides classes for children and teenagers, as well as a parents' club, free of charge.

The school conducts classes to expand creative horizons through music, drawing, puppet theater, and choreography. There is a military-patriotic club for teenagers. Children can attend a doll sewing group, a theater and dance studio, and a tourism school. It is mandatory to study the Church Slavonic language, the law of God. Father personally conducts conversations with children on Sundays.

Adults can attend classes with children, attend studios and clubs. For those interested, classes are also held at times separate from children's groups. The head of the Sunday school is Ksenia Ivanovna Ivanova. She personally participated in the selection of age-adapted programs.

A visit to Sunday school in the church of St. Andrei Rublev in Ramenki helps to understand how to be a Christian. The knowledge gained helps you find yourself in life, not be afraid of speaking in public, and learn to help others, bringing joy to their hearts. The class schedule has been selected to be as comfortable as possible for parishioners who do not want to miss services.

Services are held from Friday to Sunday according to the following schedule:

1. On Friday at 8.00, at 18.00 Vespers and Akathist to Sergius of Radonezh.
2. On Saturday, Liturgy at 8.00, prayer service in favor of construction at 16.00, all-night vigil in the church under construction from 17.00.
3. On Sunday Liturgy at 7.00, Late Liturgy in the church under construction at 10.00, Vespers at 17.00 with Akathist to the Protection of the Mother of God.

In addition to Sunday school, those who wish can become members of a charity group, helping those who find themselves in difficult life situations, or a youth organization.

The church of St. Andrei Rublev in Ramenki could easily be called “at Moscow State University”: dozens of its parishioners and three priests are university graduates. The church building under construction on Michurinsky Prospekt promises to become the architectural dominant of the area, but when is a painful question: money for construction has been collected for the ninth year. But even in such conditions, the parish manages to care for the elderly, collect things for the poor and send humanitarian aid to Donbass.

Meal in the cabin

— When I ran through the trenches, I always had a pistol and a grenade ready. So as not to surrender... - a woman named Vera talks about suicide. The priest, Father Andrei, listens silently, does not interrupt, sometimes quietly sighs: “Save, Lord!” No condemnation, no teaching.

Vera came from Donbass. She says she fought. In her native Krasnodon, which glorified the feat of the Young Guard, she has children and grandchildren. They live from hand to mouth. She scraped together the last 4 thousand rubles and came to Moscow, got a job as a concierge in a residential building in Ramenki. She sends all the money home; she no longer has enough for clothes and food. Therefore, he does not refuse the offered bowl of soup.

“They even gave me boots here, otherwise I don’t even have anything to wear!” And... thanks for listening. It became easier.

Here, in the church of St. Andrei Rublev, where they regularly hold events to collect clothes for the needy and homeless. The result of the current one is the 44th in a row - a complete “Gazelle” of things. Volunteers from the “Mercy” society are not able to lift such bags - it consists mainly of elderly parishioners. The “Andreevtsy” - a youth group of the temple, from which three guys from Moscow State University came today: Dima from the Faculty of Soil Science, Anya from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, and Kostya from the Faculty of Physics - are helping to load the load. After which everyone gathers in... the garage-change house, which replaces the refectory.

The Church of Andrei Rublev will someday become the largest in the Ramenka area: 3000 square meters is a third of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. With two chapels - for 400 and 900 parishioners, classes for Sunday school, a cinema hall, a prosphora, a sacristy, and an icon-painting workshop. But for now, services are held next door - in the wooden Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Construction of the stone church began in 2008, but it is still in the woods - it is being built with donations from parishioners.

“I have as many workers as I can pay,” explains the rector of the church, Archpriest Andrei Galukhin. — Now there are three monolithic workers and four masons. To put a roof under it, we need 30 million rubles, but in total we are collecting 150 million for construction.

They offer to immortalize philanthropists: bricks with the names of donors are placed in the wall.

Candidates for ordination

The path to the temple began back in 1993. First, explains Father Andrei, the community gathered, registered, and began begging for land - this is not easy in Moscow. Then, by decree of the Moscow Government, a vacant lot was allocated, and then, with the blessing of the Patriarch, work began on the project. It’s also slow: there are a lot of communications around that need to be taken into account, plus the Ramenki metro station is being built.

— In 2001, this wooden chapel was built. There is nothing more permanent than temporary,” Father Andrey laughs. — During the liturgy, 200 people stand here! Many people were baptized here, got married, someone was escorted into another world...

It was from this small church that the path to Orthodoxy began for priest Gleb Kiselyov, a graduate of the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University, and now a cleric of the Andrei Rublev Church. He said he was brought to church by his wife.

— I came to the temple about 10 years ago, I wanted to become a priest. But you cannot become one right away: this is a long procedure, you need to receive a higher spiritual education. Then I was ordained, and I already had a large family, three children - now there are five. I had to work in science (father Gleb - candidate of physical and mathematical sciences - "TD"), but I always perceived science as something external. The time has come - I became a priest.

There are now two candidates of science serving in the church - also Father Nikolai from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. And Father Alexander, also a graduate of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.

For Archpriest Alexander Nikolsky, the path to God began right in the corridor of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. “Once I was walking past a smoking room, I heard students talking and my ear caught the words “father” and “conversations.” He returned to the smoking room and asked: “What kind of priest, what kind of conversation?” So he came to his future confessor, then entered the seminary and became a priest,” this is how 22-year-old Kostya, one of the “Andreevites,” tells the story of Father Alexander.

Missionaries from Ramenki

The youth group “Andreevtsy” rallied around Father Alexander: having once come to faith through conversations with parishioners, he began to conduct them himself. And now history is repeating itself with new generations of Moscow State University students. The same Kostya, a graduate of the physics department, came to church in his first year, also hooked on the words “father” and “conversations.” Or 27-year-old Anya: “A friend in the dorm told me about Father Alexander, so I came to the temple,” and for eight years she hasn’t left.

- So what are we talking about?

“Mainly about the relationships between boys and girls,” Dima, a first-year student at the Faculty of Soil Science, enters the conversation. He came to the temple as a schoolboy because, as he laconically explains, “there was a need.”

“But the conversations are not only about marriage. For example, there was such a topic as Orthodoxy and sports,” continues Kostya. - Although, of course, the ones about family are the most popular. All of our priests have many children: Father Alexander, for example, has ten children!

“Andreevtsy”, like any youth group in any parish, go on pilgrimage trips together, watch and discuss movies. Some people simultaneously participate in volunteer activities of the parish group “Mercy”.

Father Andrey, Kostya and Dima

- But just communication is not enough. As Father Alexander says, young people need heroism,” says Kostya. — Now we are trying to organize youth conversations at Moscow State University. Protestants gather at the university and study the Bible, but what about us?

“Andreevtsy” together with Father Alexander have already held three such meetings at Moscow State University. Eighteen people came to the conversation about marriage and family—a modest number for a university of fifty thousand people. But the main thing is not quantity, but quality, the guys think: “All these are new people who have not gone to church before, which means we are on the right path.”

—Are there many believers among your classmates?

“Initially, no one went to the temple,” Dima answers. — And then people began to communicate with me, questions arise. So I brought one girl to the temple, and her friend came with her.

Just like with bricks: while they lie in a pile on the ground, they are just building materials. But four masons get down to business - the masonry grows, and the temple is erected.

The temple complex, designed by the famous architect Mikhail Filippov, began to be built by everyone’s efforts and by God’s will in 2008. Many Orthodox Christians were waiting for this event.

The Church of Andrei Rublev in Ramenki is the only metropolitan holy monastery erected in honor of the holy icon painter. On the adjacent territory there is a church, a museum, an icon-painting workshop, a Center for the Study of Ancient Russian Art, as well as a painting school for children and adults.

Life path of Andrei Rublev

The Church of Andrei Rublev in Ramenki was built to glorify Saint Andrew, an icon painter and a man who gave his life to serving the Lord. Scarce information about the life of the saint has survived to this day.

There is no information about which family the monk came from. Presumably, his parents were high-ranking, educated people, since during his life only representatives of the upper strata of the population had a family nickname, that is, a surname.

The monk was born around 1360, and from childhood he studied painting. Could visit Bulgaria and Byzantium to receive education. The young man’s high spiritual experience, which is reflected in his work, allows us to confidently assert that he visited the Holy Lands and communicated with the clergy.

Andrei's life took place in an era of difficult trials for Rus': bloody battles on the Kulikovo field for freedom from the Tatars, invasions of foreigners, fires, the fight against the hordes of Tamerlane. Perhaps these painful events pushed the young man to choose the monastic path.

The whole life of the saint is connected with the Spaso-Andronikov and Trinity-Sergius monasteries. Here he worked, fulfilling the orders of the Metropolitan, and here he achieved creative and spiritual perfection.

Brief information about the temple

The idea of ​​building the Church of St. Andrei Rublev in Ramenki belongs to a church community registered in 1993. The church in Rublevo is one of the shrines, the construction of which began in our time.

Already by 1994, prayer services began to be held on the territory of the future monastery in honor of the icon painter, and a Cross was erected. Over the next six years, design work was carried out and land allocation was formalized. During the same period, services began to be held at the site of the future shrine.

From 2000 to 2008, permission to carry out construction work was documented, and measures were taken to find finance. At this time, a program for the construction of Orthodox churches was created with the support of the Patriarch and the mayor of the capital, the purpose of which was to provide city residents with churches near their place of residence.

Interesting to know!– biography: who his family and children are.

A charitable foundation was created to raise funds, and from that time work on the construction of the building accelerated. On October 24, 2008, the long-awaited construction of a church began, designed for a thousand people, according to an individual project. By March, the foundation slab was made. The foundation of the building was consecrated by His Holiness the Patriarch on February 26, 2010. In the same year, construction of the ground floor was completed, where it is planned to house office premises, classes of an Orthodox school and a baptismal church.

Until 2011, communications were laid: water supply, sewerage, engineering networks, and internal work was carried out. Construction work is still ongoing.

Need to know! The Church of St. Andrew celebrates its patronal feast day on July 17 according to the new style.

Visit

The schedule of services of the temple in Ramenki in honor of Andrei Rublev will help you correctly navigate and devote some time to spiritual life, because how difficult it is for us to get away from the bustle and visit the holy monastery.

The Ramenki Church in Moscow opens its doors to believers according to the schedule of services, so before your visit it is better to clarify on what day and what time the Divine Liturgy is celebrated.

It should be noted that the schedule of services can be found on the official website of the Church of St. Andrei Rublev in Ramenki. On the virtual network you can also get acquainted with the shrines of the Temple in Rublevo; the schedule of services is usually also published here.

In the Church of Andrei Rublev, on Great Holidays and Sundays, an early liturgy is held, starting at 07:00, followed by a late one - starting at 10:00. The day before, an all-night vigil is held, and an hour before it begins, a prayer service is held for the successful construction of the Andrei Rublev Church in Moscow.

The beginning of Vespers and Matins, according to the schedule of the Temple in Rublevo, is 17:00. Periodically, a prayer service is performed to the “Inexhaustible Chalice” icon for people suffering from alcohol addiction. The transport taxi schedule will help you get straight to the place without wasting time.

On a note! Those who want to give up the harmful habit called drunkenness are expected on certain days, which are indicated in the schedule, for a prayer service in the Temple of Andrei Rublev in Ramenki. You can come with relatives or friends.

The church is located at the address in Moscow: Ramenki Street, 2. The nearest metro station is University. Here pilgrims will be able to venerate the icons of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos and the martyr Thaddeus, containing a piece of holy relics.

Parish life

The Church of St. Andrei Rublev in Ramenki organizes classes for children and adults, and also offers other useful activities for parishioners. Children's Sunday school has existed for over ten years. During this time, we managed to accumulate vast experience working with children of different ages. From early childhood, children develop in different directions.

They visit:

• lectures on studying the foundations of Orthodoxy, the Law of God;
• Church Slavonic language lessons;
• music and painting classes;
• theater and choral studios;
• wood carving class.

Parents and their children take an active part in parish activities, helping the needy, elderly, sick people, and children from orphanages.

Shared care helps all family members unite and establish trusting relationships. This attitude to life teaches children to be merciful to each other and cultivates positive qualities in the child.

In addition to Sunday school, the following groups are organized:

1. Temperance Society.
2. Youth movement.
3. Mercy group.

Anyone who feels the need to be useful to their neighbors can join the parishioners, because this topic is constantly mentioned in the Holy Scriptures.

That is why on the territory of the Church of Andrei Rublev in Ramenki, campaigns are constantly held to collect things, food, hygiene products and other essential items for disadvantaged people, the poor, and the homeless. Children also take part in charity events as much as they can: they organize concerts and performances for the disabled, orphans and the elderly.

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Let's sum it up

Let us not be indifferent to the needs of those who live especially hard, who have to endure all the hardships of existence. Let us pray for the successful construction of the new church, for those who helped build this beautiful monastery.

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