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Church of the Meeting of the Lord in Murzinka

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The village of Murzinskoye is located 105 versts from the diocesan city and is one of the oldest Russian settlements in the Ural part of the Perm province. It was founded in 1640 and received its name thanks to a noble Tatar murza who lived here in ancient times. Before the establishment of the settlement, this place was called Murzinskaya Slanya. The village is known for the variety of colored stones found in its surroundings, such as topazes, aquamarines, amethysts, mountain crystals, and tourmalines.

The Murzin parish includes the village itself and nine villages where Russian peasants live. The parish has a total of 4,449 people of both sexes, of which 543 are dissenters. The main occupation of the local residents is agriculture, as well as the harvesting and delivery of firewood and coal to nearby factories, transportation of iron, cast iron, ore, and the extraction of colored stones.

In the village, there is a stone three-altar church, which is the third since the founding of the village. It was built in 1729 with the funds of the parishioners by the blessing of Metropolitan Antoniy of Tobolsk and Siberia. The main altar of the church is dedicated to the Meeting of the Lord. The church has preserved its original appearance, except for the raising of the altar vault in 1899. It has not undergone changes and has not been assigned to another parish.

One of the side altars is dedicated to Saint Nicholas and was built in 1798, while the other, to Saint Martyr Paraskeva, was built in 1820. The iconostases in the Church of the Meeting of the Lord were installed in 1851, and in the side altars, in 1876. In the Meeting Church, the iconostasis is three-tiered, decorated with gilded carvings and painted icons, and the local icons have silver vestments.

In the altar of Saint Martyr Paraskeva, there is a locally venerated icon of this saint, which, according to tradition, is very ancient and dates back to the 18th century. Originally, it was located in a chapel in the field of the village of Yuzhakova, but after a fire, it was transferred to the Murzin Church. Every year, numerous pilgrims from the surrounding factories and villages gather to venerate this shrine. After the liturgy on the ninth Friday after Easter, a procession is held to the village of Yuzhakova, where a water blessing service is conducted in the chapel for Saint Martyr Paraskeva. A procession is also held in the sixth week after Easter to the village of Kaygorodskoye. Both processions were permitted by the Holy Synod in 1880.

The parish has three chapels in the villages of Yuzhakova, Lugovaya, and Zyryanskaya, built by parishioners for services during the procession with the icon of Saint Martyr Paraskeva to the village of Kaygorodskoye. The Murzin Church owns three houses for the clergy, two wooden shop buildings, two stone tents, and a wooden barn.

In 1938, the village church was closed by the Bolsheviks, but the building has survived to this day in satisfactory condition. In 2004, a meeting of residents took place in Murzinka dedicated to the revival of the Meeting community. Since then, and to this day, the villagers are cared for by Priest Viktor Drozdov. According to him, the church building has still not been returned to the Yekaterinburg diocese and currently houses a gem museum. Although the museum is unique, the local administration should consider the needs of the believers, especially given that the Meeting Church is included in the list of cultural heritage sites in the region.

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Церковь Сретения Господня в Мурзинке

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