Nicholas the Wonderworker is one of the most revered Christian saints. On the world map, it is difficult to find a Christian city where Nicholas the Pleasant would not show his miraculous love, protecting people in trouble.
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Many churches have been erected in Russia, named after Nicholas. The nationwide love for the saint is also evidenced by the fact that believers celebrate the feast of Nicholas twice a year - on December 19 and May 22. An old legend says that once Saints Nicholas and Kasian came down from heaven to walk the earth and help people.
View of the bell tower of the St. Nicholas Kremlin Church
And the saints saw a man trying to pull the cart out of the mud. The man asked for help, but Kasyan refused: “I don’t want to dirty my paradise robes, how can I come to heaven like this and show myself to the Lord?” Nicholas the Wonderworker silently climbed into the mud and pushed the cart out to a dry place. God marveled at such philanthropy and allowed Nicholas to celebrate name days 2 times a year, and ordered to celebrate Saint Kasyan's day only 1 time in 4 years, that is, on February 29.
A brief history of the St. Nicholas Kremlin Church
One of the churches in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is located in the center of the city of Vladimir, on Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street. From the south, the temple is surrounded by a public garden and a square where a monument to Alexander Nevsky is erected, and from the east, a wall rises to the church. Rozhdestvensky monastery.
View of the Nikolo-Kremlin Church from Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street
The church stands on the place where the city Kremlin was located in antiquity, hence the name - Nikolo-Kremlevskaya. According to the descriptive book of the Vladimir Kremlin-city, the wooden St. Nicholas Church has been here since 1626, but in 1719 it was destroyed by a fire.
In 1761 - 1769 a new stone church with a side-altar and a four-tier bell tower was built... In 1850, a new side-altar was erected on the south side of the temple in honor of Saint Simeon the Stylite, who became famous for his unparalleled ascetic deeds. First of all, this saint is known for having spent 37 years in fasting and prayer, retiring on a small stone platform, at the top of a pillar (tower).
Architecture and relics of St. Nicholas Church
The Nicholas Kremlin Church is a vivid example of the posad pillarless temples of the Baroque era. The main volume of the building is built in the form of a high quadrangle, covered with a four-pitched roof, on which an octagonal drum rests, topped with an onion dome of an exquisite baroque shape.
The high faceted bell tower adjoining the refectory is made according to the traditional type of "octagon on a quadruple" and finished with a slender spire. On the east side, the main volume of the church is adjoined by a spacious altar apse, covered with a conch (half-dome). The decor of the Nikolsky Church is characterized by expressive plastic, in which echoes of the Russian ornamental pattern of the 17th century can be traced.
View of the northwest side of the church
The list of relics of the Nikolo-Kremlin Church includes ancient icons such as the icon of the Savior, the Kazan icon of the Mother of God, the miraculous image of St. Nicholas, written on a plane tree board. At present, the Nikolskaya Church in Vladimir is not active. Within its walls there is a state library and a planetarium, opened in 1962..
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