The largest Orthodox church with a rich history is the Church of the Three Holy Hierarchs of Moscow: Peter, Alexius, and Jonah, located in the village of Medvedево. It was opened on September 16, 1893, after the state official A. Bukharin and Cossacks M. Antonov and Ya. Ugryumov submitted a petition to the Holy Synod on July 29, 1881.
The first priest was Nikolai Apollinarievich Malyshev. In mid-June 1916, the miraculous Tabyn icon of the Mother of God was in the church. In July 1919, during the Civil War, White Army Cossacks set up a machine gun in the bell tower. Red Cossacks destroyed half of the bell tower and the large dome of the church with cannon fire.
Priest Malyshev was repeatedly arrested from 1919 to 1937 for "counter-revolutionary activities," and on October 4, 1937, he was shot under the decree of the "troika" of the Chelyabinsk region's NKVD. From 1929 to 1934, a nun named Afanasiya from the Kazan Women's Monastery lived at the church. The church was closed in 1934. In 1947, Archpriest V. T. Kolesnikov and Hieromonk Vassian blessed the parishioners to repair the church and raise funds for its restoration.
Nuns from the Trinity Monastery collected over 500 signatures for the restoration of the church in Medvedево. The church was repaired and opened on Easter 1947. In 1961, it was closed again. Restoration began in 1997 when Priest Alexander Shchapin was assigned to the parish. Due to a lack of funds, the restoration was slow, but under his guidance, a residential building was converted into a church. It was consecrated in honor of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, and services began on January 7, 1998. In early 2000, thanks to benefactors from Chelyabinsk, the restoration of the church accelerated. On June 18, 2000, the first liturgy was held on Trinity Sunday, officiated by Father Alexander. On October 18, 2000, a prayer service and the consecration of the church took place on the feast day.
The church is an example of a refectory type. The main volumes of the church consist of parts of varying heights. The non-columnar single-domed square of the main volume, covered with a vaulted ceiling, is adjacent to a lowered volume of a semicircular apse and an even lower volume of an elongated refectory, to which a wide narthex with a single-tier bell tower is attached from the west. Windows are located on the southern and northern facades: one on the altar apse, two on the sides of the entrance portal, and three along the refectory. The window finishes are decorated with ornamental zakomaras. The portals are framed by semi-columns and topped with arched zakomaras. The upper part of the wall is highlighted by a cornice; the roof of the square is four-pitched, while the refectory has a two-pitched roof painted green. On the church roof, there is one large dome, one small over the altar, and four wooden domes at the corners. All domes are topped with eight-pointed crosses. On the western side rises a single-tier bell tower, an octagon on a square base, with four windows through which the sound of the bells carries. The top of the bell tower is crowned with a large onion dome, the largest of the seven domes of the church. A stone porch leads to the narthex through an iron door. Inside the narthex, there is a small watchman's room on the right and a room with access to the bell tower on the left. Inside the church, there is a wooden floor, and heating is provided by two stoves. The iconostasis is 4.5 fathoms long and 3.5 fathoms high. The bell tower is single-tier, reaching a height of 9.5 fathoms to the top of the cornice.
The Church of the Three Holy Hierarchs is included in the list of cultural heritage sites of the Chelyabinsk region, representing historical and artistic value.
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