The Kamensky parish was founded on the site of the Dalmatovsky Monastery settlement and received its name from the Kamenka River. The parish includes the villages: Tokareva, Baynova, Brod, Novozavodskaya, Pozorikha, and Mazulya. A total of 4,458 men and 4,519 women live in the parish, all of them of Russian descent. Some of them migrated from various regions of Russia, while others were relocated by the government during serfdom. Due to a lack of land, local residents rarely engage in agriculture, preferring to work in factories and mines, as well as in crafts: blacksmithing, carpentry, shoemaking, and locksmithing. In the villages, they engage in agriculture and livestock breeding, and in their free time, they transport ore and other materials for the factory.
The Kamensky parish was founded in 1700. The first wooden church, built in 1701 in honor of the Three Hierarchs with an altar dedicated to the righteous Artemy Verkolskiy, burned down in 1768. The second wooden church, built in 1779, also burned down in 1815. In 1790, permission was granted to build a stone church with three altars. In 1805, the altars were consecrated, and in 1813, the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity.
In 1828, the altars and bell tower were rebuilt. A second floor was added above the altars, which housed three altars: in the name of the Uncreated Image of the Savior, the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, and the holy prophet Elijah. Two more altars were added to the lower floor: on the southern side in honor of the Exaltation of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, and on the northern side, in the name of the holy great martyr Paraskeva. Thus, the church became an eight-altar church, built with the funds of the parishioners.
The iconostases in the upper church are decorated with carvings and are completely gilded. Funds for their construction came from the rental of a trading area where shops and scales were located. The income from the rent was used for the maintenance and decoration of the church until 1895, when the Kamensky plant society took it for themselves.
The clergy consists of three priests, a deacon, and three psalmists. There is one church house for their accommodation. The chapel of the cemetery, the Pokrovskaya Church, which is stone and has one altar, was built in 1883. There are three schools functioning at the plant: a zemstvo women's school, a ministerial men's school, and a church literacy school at the women's community.
The project for the new church was developed by the chief architect of the Yekaterinburg management of mining plants, Mikhail Pavlovich Malakhov, in 1821. He added two porticos to the church from the south and north and built a second floor over the refectory. The bell tower was decorated with large arched windows and a Corinthian rotunda with a dome. In 1828, the church was fully completed and plastered.
The church owned an extensive trading area, including shops on the current Lenin Street and part of the Sobornaya Square. Nearby was a small church cemetery.
In 1912, the Holy Trinity Church of the Kamensky plant received the status of a cathedral. On August 12, 1912, His Grace Mitrophan announced the decree of the Holy Synod on the elevation of the church to the rank of a regular cathedral.
In the spring of 1918, the metric books were confiscated from the Holy Trinity Church. Priest Vasily Pobedenostsev was killed at the Sinar station and was canonized in 2000.
The cathedral was closed in December 1930. A case was initiated on the complaint of parishioners regarding the closure of the cathedral, and on September 13, 1930, it was decided to use the building for a cultural and educational institution.
The bell tower of the cathedral was used as a parachute tower, and later the building was handed over to a sewing factory. By 1990, the building was in an emergency state.
On July 13, 1990, a decision was made to transfer the building to the society of Orthodox Christians. In 1998, the cathedral received the status of an Archdiocesan courtyard. In 1999, Priest Ioann Agafonov became the rector. On December 19, 2001, Archbishop Vikentiy consecrated the altar in the main church of Kamensk-Uralsky.
Today, the cathedral is the main church of the Kamensky diocese. A library operates at the church, and on Sundays, classes are held in the church-parish school. Among the relics is the icon of the righteous Simeon of Verkhoturye with a particle of his relics.
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