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St. John Theologian Macarovskiy Monastery-Main
The Macarovskiy Churchyard History
The Monastery History
Father Monastic Superior
The Inexhaustible Cup Icon
The Macarovskiy Churchyard Architecture
The St. John Theologian Cathedral
The Overgate Belfry
Winter Temples
Towers and Walls
Macarovskiy Churchyard is 300
The Visit of Metropolitan
The visit of Konovalov

 
 

The winter temples

The temple of the icon of the
Mother of God “The sing”
The church of the Archangel Michael with refectory and alms-house was built in the end of 1690s and consecrated in 1702. The contrast of the compact well-proportioned temple streamed upwards and stocky side-chapel make its volumetric composition. The lower tetrahedral construction of the temple lighted from two window openings is covered with the torispherical vault. The second tetrahedral construction bears the opened octagonal construction – the bell place, covered with the close vault and topped with a big “onion” cupola on the eight-sided circle.There are stairs in the wide wall of the tetrahedral constructions. It leads to the bell place. Almost square side-altar (14,5 x 15,5 meters) is divided by two walls into three rooms: hallway in the western part, the alms-house in the south and refectory in the north. They are bridged with the jointed vaults and flat hip roof. The church of Archangel representing the featured forms of the end of the 17th century refers to the temple-bell tower type.

 

The temple of the Archangel Michael and the Holy bodiless powers.
The women’s alms-house was built nearly 1763. In 1800s the church of the Holy Sign was erected. It copied the volumetric composition and decor of the Archangel church. To make ensemble look accomplished and to add integrity to the space composition the archaic forms of the end of the 17th century were revived in the period of classicism. The repeats of the archaic, degenerating forms and timid new elements “fitting” can be seen in the fronts’ decorations. Window fingerplates for the second tier of the temple with clear division to vertical and horizontal elements: semi-columns at consoles, finely thinned out ledges, a small triangular pediment and three beads in the head are taken from the 17th century heritage. The metrical wall system differs from the most of asymmetrical pictorial frontal compositions of the 17th century and resembles the building of the Savior monastery in Yaroslavl (1670s). The window fingerplates of the first tier of the church with detached pediment, ears and small bullhead over the torispherical crosspieces are an attempt to renew the appearance of apertures framing. Originally the churches had a tiled roof. To the beginning of the 20th century the bell places were blocked up.
In the post revolution years the prayer services were hold in the Archangel Michael temple in the periods since 1930 to 1933 and in the period since 1933 to 1935 the church was used as a granary. The temple was finally destroyed in 1935 and in 1970s it was restored anew by the restorers. A museum was arranged there after that. In 2002 the temple was restored completely by the monastery brethren and on November, 21 on the day of three-hundredth anniversary of the temple it was newly consecrated by the Archbishop Varsanofiy.
The church of the Holy Sign was destroyed to the plinth in 1930s. In 1974 the building was restored anew and in summer 1991 it was returned to the believers and on December, 10 1991 the Archbishop Varsanofiy consecrated the temple and held there the first after a long-term interval Divine Liturgy.