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The Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in Nedyelnoye

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The Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in the village of Nedyelnoe, located in the Maloyaroslavets district of the Kaluga region, was built in 1804. The first mentions of the local wooden church, erected in 1627 and 1628, can be found in the land survey books of the Obolensk district. Since 1684, it belonged to the Novodevichy Monastery and was repaired multiple times.

The stone church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos was constructed by the parishioners in 1804. The main altar was consecrated in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, the right altar in honor of Saint Nicholas, and the left altar in honor of the Holy Martyrs Frol and Lavr. The church had a bell tower and was surrounded by a fence with two towers on the eastern side. One of the towers housed a candle shop, while the other contained a church library. In 1848, the number of towers increased to four, with two additional towers added on the western side. In 1887, a chapel was built in honor of the coronation of Emperor Alexander Alexandrovich and Empress Maria Feodorovna.

The priests of the church, in addition to their ecclesiastical duties, taught in the church-parish and zemstvo schools of the village of Nedyelnoe, as well as in the villages of Grigoryevskaya and Novaya. The church elder, Fyodor Ivanovich Glazunov, using his own funds, gilded the crosses and the iconostasis, painted the main altar, and erected a new fence with two towers. For his merits, he was awarded a medal in 1908.

On January 20, 1932, priest Vasily Chugaev was sentenced to three years in a corrective labor camp, but services in the church continued. On July 4, 1938, by the decision of the troika of the NKVD of the Moscow region, the last pre-war rector of the church, priest Ioann Lebedev, was executed, and since then the church became inactive. Its building was used as a storage facility for grain or spare parts. Years without repairs led to the church's destruction, and by the mid-1990s, it was overgrown with trees and grass, and the plaster had completely fallen off.

On May 26, 1995, the church was returned to the Kaluga diocese based on a resolution from the government of the Russian Federation dated May 6, 1994. However, restoration did not begin due to a lack of funds. All restoration work was taken on by OAO Gazprom. Since January 2001, N. N. Guslisty, the deputy chairman of the board of OAO Gazprom, became the head of the restoration. Funds came from donations from OAO Gazprom enterprises, as well as from organizations and businesses in the Kaluga region, Moscow, and other regions of Russia and abroad. A church complex was created with a Sunday school, a parish house, a chapel, a mini-park, and a lake. The painting of the church was carried out by artists and restorers from the Moscow State Research Institute of Architecture and Restoration. Since March 2001, services were held in a temporary building. On August 25, 2001, a solemn opening and consecration of the church took place, conducted by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia, who presented the church with an icon of the Kazan Mother of God. The governor of the Kaluga region, A. D. Artamonov, gifted an ancient icon by Vologda masters titled "The Savior Not Made by Hands."

The bell tower of the church houses 14 new bells made by Voronezh craftsmen, the largest of which weighs over three tons.

Currently, a Sunday school operates at the church.

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Храм Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы в Недельном

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