DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

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    The proposed church should become the center of the parish, which includes several settlements: Zakharovo village and Letny Otdykh village, as well as the villages of Hlyupino and Sharapovka. At the end of 2011, about six thousand people live in this area. An outstanding attraction of these places is the village of Zakharovo itself with a recreated manor house (rebuilt on the 200th anniversary of the birth of A.S.Pushkin), where the great Russian poet lived in the spring and summer months from 1805 to 1810 with his grandmother Maria Alekseevna Hannibal, sister, brother and parents, who were coming to visit. Currently, the house and the park belong to the A.S. Pushkin museum-reserve of the Ministry of Culture of the Moscow region. Pushkin more than once in his works remembered Zakharovo... The history of this place is connected not only with the name of the poet. The roads of devastating wars passed through Vyazemy and Zakharovo: the intervention of 1612 and the invasion of languages ​​under the leadership of Napoleon in 1812. In the troubled years that followed the expulsion of Poles and Lithuanians from Moscow, gangs of foreigners wandered around the forests for a long time, until 1618. In the Patriotic War of 1812 on the territory of Zvenigorod County, which included Zakharovo, Russian partisan detachments acted... A year before his death, Pushkin wrote the poem "The Wanderer". This is a kind of spiritual biography of the poet, a brief and dramatic story of gaining faith. A rare and symbolic dedication of the church of the Savior, who opened his eyes to the blindborn, would become both a man-made and at the same time a spiritual monument to the man who left a huge heritage for russian and world culture. The church, according to the customer, must stylistically correspond to the era. The temple building is seen in the style of Russian or Moscow Empire style: a large semicircular dome, columns, remote porticoes, high windows; inside the column, choirs (balconies on the western, southern and northern sides), a spacious vestibule. In the narthex there is an icon shop. From the upper temple down to the lower one, located in the basement. In the lower baptismal temple, there must be an entrance from the courtyard. In the lower temple are rooms for the preparation of baptizers, and for the sacristy. Two altars dedicated to Jesus Christ and St. Alexander Nevsky can be supplemented with other altars, small, located to the right and left of the main one.

   The temple in Zakharovo is two-story: the lower level can be in a high pedestal, with windows and bevels down, so that daylight always pours into the 'lower church'. Descent - the entrance to the 'lower church' should be external, from the courtyard, but also internal, from the 'upper church'. If you stand in the' lower church' facing the altar, then in the front right corner there should be a room for Baptism — the baptistery. Its approximate area is 50 m2. The baptistery should be fenced off from the church space by partially assembled one after another wooden-glass walls rolling along the rails in the floor. In the center of the baptistery is a stone font with steps down and with screens around the font. Drainage is provided through a pipe to a dry well in the church. The inner descent-rise between the 'lower' and 'upper' churches should be in the opposite corner from the baptistery. In the baptistery, it is necessary to provide a separate corner behind the screen for the preparation of baptized ones. In the 'lower church', closer to the outer exit to the courtyard, you need a wardrobe and a candle shop. The 'lower church' is single-throne. The 'upper church' can have one main throne and two small ones: all on the same line in one large altar. The iconostases will be arranged as one design, but taking into account three initiations, that is, as three different iconostases. The choirs are located on the balconies. The sacristy can be placed in the altar of the 'lower church'. In the 'upper church' there should be a spacious porch for a good icon-bookstore. There are three exits to the street from the 'upper church'. Side out under the porticoes with columns. House of clergy - two floors with a basement for the kitchen, library and utility rooms. On the ground floor: refectory, a couple of lounges, a bathroom, two classes for studying.