Arsovski Archangel Michael temple Photo: Arsovski Archangel Michael temple

In the village this doll Volgograd region stands a white stone five-domed Church, consecrated in 1896, in the name of the Holy Archangel Michael.

White stone Church building stands on the site of the original wooden Church, brought from the estate in 1835. The old Church, which stood more than half a century, eventually became dilapidated. Pichincha merchant society in 1890, with the blessing of the Holy righteous John of Kronstadt, decides to build a new Church. Six years later, a beautiful five-domed Church opens its doors to parishioners.

Before the revolution, the building of the temple operated a parochial school. With the advent of Soviet power, the school was closed, the priest repressed, and the building was converted to a granary. During the great Patriotic war, the bell tower was destroyed. In the history of the temple had three attempts to blow up the temple: in the 1920-ies (Civil war), during the great Patriotic war and the last attempt was thwarted by residents in 1975.

In 1988, the dilapidated building of the temple passed to the diocese of Volgograd. Examining a two-foot piles of garbage, parishioners found the shell in the wall of the building, located there since the war. For lack of sponsors and contractors temple reconstructed long on donations of parishioners. Since 1991, the Archangel Michael Church regular services have been conducted, and in 1999 it was restored wall paintings and the bell tower. In our days, the magnificent temple is an architectural monument of the nineteenth century and historical landmark of Arsovski and the Volgograd region.

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