Church of All Russian Saints in Pine Photo: Church of All Russian Saints in Pine

Famous temple in the name of All Russian Saints is in the small village of Pine Priozersky district of Leningrad region.

In the 15th century the village of Pine was called the Rout. In this little village, populated by true believers inhabitants, there was a small Orthodox Church, consecrated in the name of St. Basil the Great. The temple was equipped with attached chapels located in the district of such modern settlements as a nut, Ivanovo, and Vasilevsky Roguesci the graveyard, otherwise known as the Expanse. After 1577, the Church was never mentioned again in the chronicle sources.

During 1864-1865, the territorial area of the existing churchyard as close to Rout the village of Zamosc (Valkeala), according to the famous architect G. I. Karpov, was built a wooden Church, consecrated in the name of St. Andrew. After some period of time, the wooden Church was badly damaged and was completely destroyed during the bloody war of 1939-1940-ies.

From 1994 to 1998, under the watchful guidance of FR Prokofiev Alexander, and 1993 and the Abbot again open Pine of the parish, was built a wooden Church with a miniature baptismal chapel, consecrated in the name of Saints Basil the Great and St. Nicholas. The Church was built on the North side of the porch of the chapel of the icon of the mother of God called "spring".

The main part of the composition carries a quadrangle, with several annexes, which form a cross. The total height of the Church building is 25 meters, and the wedding of the temple is designed in the form of nine onion-shaped domes, which are mounted on the drums and Shine gold color. All existing roof of the Church is covered in iron, painted in dark brown color. Almost all the window openings of the temple is more like Windows than Windows. The exterior walls of the Church of All Russian Saints have inherent color of the wood. As for the altar of the frame, then put into it a piece of relics of St. Sergius of Radonezh.

Inherent in the interior of the Church of All Russian Saints are decorated in a traditional Greek tradition that was carried out during 1998-2000, with the participation of benefactors of Greece. Church iconostasis, as well as the vast number of icons were made Prokofieva, A. B.

Today by renowned architects A. Kurochkin, G., E. Varakin, Ambachew V. P. and brothers Nadezhdina was built the so-called "sacred band", decorated according to the traditions of Russian wooden architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. It includes not only the Church itself, but also the steepled bell tower, which reaches a height of 28 meters, 2 jonnym bell, which is the greatest for buildings of wood; the bell tower was equipped with a cone-shaped dome having the shape of onion domes. The existing bell tower with 12 bells, nadkladeznaya chapel, outhouses and saints of the entrance gate.

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