Church of the Transfiguration (Obukhovka)

Church of the Transfiguration
Church of the Transfiguration
Basic information
Location	Obukhovka, Rostov Oblast, Russia
Affiliation	Russian Orthodox
Completed	1864

Last updated March 20, 2019

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Church of the Transfiguration (Russian : Церковь Спаса Преображения) is a Russian Orthodox church in the village of Obukhovka, Azovsky District, Rostov Oblast, Russia. It belongs to the Diocese of Rostov and Novocherkassk. It was built in 1864 in pseudo-Russian style.^[1]

Russian is an East Slavic language, which is official in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely used throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It was the de facto language of the Soviet Union until its dissolution on 25 December 1991. Although, nowadays, nearly three decades after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian is used in official capacity or in public life in all the post-Soviet nation-states, as well as in Israel and Mongolia, the rise of state-specific varieties of this language tends to be strongly denied in Russia, in line with the Russian World ideology.

Azovsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,862 square kilometers (1,105 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Azov. Population: 93,579 ; 92,568 (2002 Census); 83,393 (1989 Census).

Rostov Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, located in the Southern Federal District. The oblast has an area of 100,800 square kilometers (38,900 sq mi) and a population of 4,277,976, making it the sixth most populous federal subject in Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Rostov-on-Don, which also became the administrative center of the Southern Federal District in 2002.

History

Construction of the church began on August 22, 1861 ― the day when construction site was consecrated. Construction works were progressing rather quickly as all local dwellers participated in them, and by August 1864 they had been finished. On July 3, 1866 the church was consecrated by priest Ioann Dikov.^[2]

In 1890, in the church at its southern side there was built a chapel, which was consecrated in honour of St. Andrew of Crete. Four years later, in the northern side there was also arranged a second chapel in the name of Sts Constantine and Helena.^[2]

The term chapel usually refers to a Christian place of prayer and worship that is attached to a larger, often nonreligious institution or that is considered an extension of a primary religious institution. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a college, hospital, palace, prison, funeral home, church, synagogue or mosque, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building, sometimes with its own grounds. Chapel has also referred to independent or nonconformist places of worship in Great Britain—outside the established church.

For the archbishop of the same name, see Andrew of Crete.

Constantine the Great, also known as Constantine I, was a Roman Emperor who ruled between 306 and 337 AD. Born in Naissus, in Dacia Ripensis, town now known as Niš, he was the son of Flavius Valerius Constantius, a Roman Army officer. His mother was Empress Helena. His father became Caesar, the deputy emperor in the west, in 293 AD. Constantine was sent east, where he rose through the ranks to become a military tribune under Emperors Diocletian and Galerius. In 305, Constantius was raised to the rank of Augustus, senior western emperor, and Constantine was recalled west to campaign under his father in Britannia (Britain). Constantine was acclaimed as emperor by the army at Eboracum after his father's death in 306 AD. He emerged victorious in a series of civil wars against Emperors Maxentius and Licinius to become sole ruler of both west and east by 324 AD.

Although it was constantly expanding, by 1910 the building could no longer accommodate all the parishioners. Parishioners and priests of the church had to appeal to the Regional Board of the Don Cossacks with the application for extension of the church. In 1912, the parishioners petitioned again, this time on the construction of the bell tower by architect G.N. Vasilyev. Construction work is likely to be completed in 1913, although there is no exact data on this matter.^[2]

Don Cossacks are Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don. Historically, they have been located within what was the Don Cossack Host, which was either an independent or an autonomous democratic republic in the present-day Southern Russia and the Donbass region of Ukraine, from the end of the 16th century until 1918. As of 1992, by the presidential decree of the Russian Federation, Cossacks can be enrolled on a special register. A number of Cossack communities have been reconstituted to further the Cossack cultural traditions, including those of the Don Cossack Host.

In 1940 the Soviet authorities planned to close the church. However, the parishioners managed to save it from encroachment: the locals had staged around the clock, not allowing representatives of the authorities to come. One day, after another conflict with the authorities, the elderly and children, along with father Nicholas locked up in the church and announced that it would have to be blow up together with them.^[3]

The church still stood during another anti-religious campaign even during the tenure of Nikita Khrushchev: delegation of Communist party representatives were stoned.^[3] Thus, the church became one of the few where religious services never ceased and have never been looted.^[2]

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.

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