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House churches, unlike parish churches, are usually intended for a limited circle of people (for example, a family) and were located not in a separate building, but in one of the premises (rooms) of the house.

The establishment of house churches for persons who have acquired the right to special respect, and for those who, having zeal for the temple of God, cannot attend the parish church due to their illness or old age, is permitted by the diocesan bishop, and in the capitals - by the Holy Synod. The existence of a house church was allowed only until the death of the person for whom its establishment was permitted; after his death, all belongings of the house church become the property of the parish church, unless a new resolution takes place.

Emperor Peter I completely prohibited the establishment of house churches; in 1722 (April 12) and 1723 (October 5), the Holy Synod allowed “notable and elderly persons, in extreme cases, to have in their house chambers movable antimensions with the decoration necessary for sacred rites, but without special clergy.” In 1762 it was again allowed to have house churches.

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House temple - how is it different from an ordinary temple?

In fact, the meaning of what a house church is lies in its very name - it is a temple that is located in a house. Moreover, a house, both in the broad sense (any building, structure), and in the narrow sense - a personal mansion or private mansions.

Why are house churches built (or should it be more correct to say: house churches)? They are arranged in cases where there is a desire or need to have a temple, but there is no possibility or need to erect it in the form of a separate building.

As in the case of chapels, a house church is created to help a person, at a certain moment or in a certain place, break out of the usual bustle and connect thought with God. But unlike the chapel, the church has an altar, and therefore the Sacrament of Liturgy and Communion can be performed in it. Therefore, one of the meanings of house churches is to organize them where there are people who, for one reason or another, do not have the opportunity to get to neighboring churches: for example, in hospitals or military units.

An unusual example of a house church. House temple in the name of the icon Mother of God“Recovery of the dead” at Plekhanov University. From the outside it looks like a full-fledged temple, but in fact it is only part of a house, which is even larger, and that is why the temple is considered a brownie. Photo: patriarchia.ru

House churches: where they can be located

In hospitals and clinics. Of course, there are full-fledged small churches on the territory of some hospitals. But where there is no possibility or purpose to erect a separate building, house temples are built. They are arranged primarily for patients and staff.
In military units. For military personnel.
In educational institutions. Now - mainly at theological academies. But not only that. For example, there is a large house church at Moscow State University on Vozdvizhenka. House churches at institutes are old tradition, which carries the idea of spiritual education of students.
In monasteries house churches can be established in any auxiliary or service buildings. They, as a rule, play the role of “small” churches, in which services are held “on occasion” (for example, on days big holidays or the memory of the saints in whose honor the temple was consecrated).
In private houses. They probably don’t do this now, but before the revolution, a very rich landowner could place a house church in one of his mansions.
In government premises. For example, there is a house church in the building of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation in Moscow.

Patriarchal service in the house Church of the Three Saints in Paris. Photo: patriarchia.ru

House churches: what are they?

If someone says that a house church is somehow “worse” than ordinary churches, then this is not true. All churches are equal, the Holy Liturgy is served in each.

Another thing is that, as a rule, house churches are small and less luxurious in architectural forms or decoration (although there are exceptions). But these are all human circumstances that in no way affect the depth of spiritual life or the essence of the Sacraments. Saints and early Christians sometimes took communion in ordinary caves.

House churches in Moscow (photo)

Here, look, examples of house churches in Moscow. Photos are taken from the official websites of these churches, links in the signature.

The home church of the great martyr and healer Panteleimon at the Russian Scientific Center for Surgery named after. B.V. Petrovsky RAMS. It is located in this building:

and looks like this:

House church at the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation. Here's the building itself:

And here is the temple itself: (essentially: the only altar)

The home church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. An example of a house church, which in size and decoration is in no way inferior to large parish churches.

The home church of all Moscow Saints at the Moscow Compound of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra. It is also quite large: two altars.

And this is the mansion in which the temple is located. The house is called the Metropolitan Chambers. Before the revolution, this was the residence of Patriarch Tikhon.

House Church of the Prophet Elijah on Vorontsovo Field. An example of a temple located in a very simple house:

But inside, thanks to the layout, it is quite large:

This is him too. You can’t even tell that this is a living cube:

House churches: what you need to know about them

So, to briefly summarize the above:

House churches are absolutely full-fledged temples.
And their only feature is that they are not built as a separate building, but are arranged inside an “ordinary” house.
House churches are organized in those cases, when a temple is needed, but there is no need or opportunity to build a separate church. For example, in hospitals, educational institutions, military units. Less often - in private homes.
House churches are not necessary small and room-like. Some are as large as churches in decoration and size.

Trinity Church in Paris. Photo: patriarchia.ru

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HOUSE TEMPLES: HISTORY AND MODERNITY

Source: do.pstgu.ru/show_file/show_file.php?file=1301582821502711.doc, 2013

In the first two centuries of the history of the Christian Church there were no parishes in the modern sense of the word. All services were performed primarily in the city church, located in catacombs, cemeteries and private homes. In the middle of the 3rd century largest cities Empire (Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, Ephesus, Corinth) built cathedral churches, as well as other temples, around which believers living nearby gathered.

In the 4th century, after the publication of the Edict of Milan, Christian churches, which is due to the massive conversion of pagans to Christianity. Almost all pagan temples were rebuilt into Christian churches and consecrated. In addition, new churches were built, initiated by government authorities, rural communities and private landowners.

The canons of the church concerning the construction of churches and the order of worship began to take shape from the apostolic age. The main meaning of the regulations concerns the prohibition of making offerings outside churches and outside the authority of the bishop (i.e. outside the Church).

Thus, the 31st Apostolic Canon reads: “If any presbyter, despising his own bishop, holds separate assemblies, and erects another altar... let him be cast out, for he is covetous.”

In the 4th century, several Local Councils at once: Gangra (rule 6) and Antioch (rule 5) forbade laity and clergy to form meetings, despising the church, and the 58th rule of the Laodicean Council directly states: “It is not proper for bishops or elders to make offerings in houses "

By the time of the Sixth Ecumenical Council (681), the issue of performing divine services in private homes had moved to a different plane. If in the first centuries of Christianity there were no churches, then over time the practice simply developed of building house “prayer temples” or “prayer rooms” in houses, in connection with which the Council established: “We determine that clergy who officiate or baptize in prayer temples located inside houses , they did this only by the permission of the local bishop...” (31st canon).

Clarifying rules were also established by the Seventh Ecumenical Council(787) and the Double Local Council (861).

Thus, by the end of the 9th century, the formation of the canons of the Eastern Church was completed, regulating the construction of house churches and parish life in them.

In the Russian Orthodox Church, from the very beginning of its history, when it still constituted the metropolis of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, internal structure parishes were not much different from Byzantine ones.

In the tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church, a house church is a separate building or premises attached to a residential building or institution, which has an antimension and is intended for worship. There was no clear distinction between parish and house churches. An example of this Annunciation Cathedral The Moscow Kremlin, which until the 18th century was the home church of the Moscow sovereigns.

In the descriptions of Blagoveshchensky Cathedral XIX century, a legend about the construction was published wooden church Annunciation in 1291 by Prince Andrei Alexandrovich, the son of Alexander Nevsky, and this was due to the fact that in Moscow at that time there was a princely court, which necessarily had to have a temple.

Under Peter I, the establishment of house churches was first completely prohibited, and then in 1722 Holy Synod with imperial permission he allowed them to be created in exceptional cases.

Since 1762, the practice of creating house churches has been resumed. They settled at military units, hospitals, government institutions, were also created to meet the needs of believers deprived of the opportunity to attend the parish church, as well as to create a parish from family members of employees.

Two years after the founding of Moscow University, in July 1757, its director I. I. Melisino turned to the Holy Synod with a request to transfer the nearby Paraskeva Pyatnitsa Church and the Resurrection Church to the University. In 1791, the church was consecrated in the name of St. mts. Tatiana in the left wing of the new University building on Mokhovaya. In the building that exists today, the temple was consecrated in 1837.

The construction of the Golitsyn hospital (1st Gradskaya) began with the construction of a temple. In 1801, in the presence of Emperor Alexander I, the hospital church was solemnly consecrated in the name of the Holy Blessed Prince Demetrius. A year later, the hospital admitted its first patients. Later, an almshouse opened nearby.

No one even thought about the impact of religion on the minds and hearts of prisoners in Russia, until the opening of the Guardianship Society for Prisons in 1819. Alexander I approved the “Rules” of this society.

Rule 11 says: “If a means can be found for a prison to establish a church, then this is an excellent institution for the spiritual benefit of those detained.” The establishment of churches in the prisons of St. Petersburg was so successful that until 1826 the entrance to the churches was open to all people, but due to a lack of supervision over the communication of the “free” and the arrested, free entry was prohibited.

Military churches have historically been centers of spiritual culture, they were not only places of worship, but also a kind of military museums that stored priceless church and military-historical relics.

Among the first military churches is the Church of the Savior Miraculous Image, built in the Spasskaya Tower of the Kazan Kremlin by order of Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich.

During the synodal era, churches were built in the Naval Cadet and Page Corps, the cathedral of all artillery, the church of the General Staff, a number of Life Guard regiments and Cossack units.

Military temples should be divided into two large groups: permanent and traveling. The permanent ones could occupy either an independent building or be included in any building, for example, the building of a regimental barracks, headquarters or even an arena. Camping churches belonged to land military formations, and were also located on military ships.

It is interesting that Peter I, who prohibited the construction of house churches, in 1721 himself expressed a desire to have a camp church on the ship “Fridrik-Stat”. However, the Holy Synod decisively spoke out against the celebration of the Liturgy on ships, “On a ship, during rough seas, there is quite a bit of... hesitation in the spilling of things, which sometimes causes spillage, as can happen to the Most Pure Mysteries celebrated in the Liturgy.”

Military house churches were most often dedicated in honor of saints or holidays on the day of which a particular unit won a victory.

After the October Revolution in 1918-1919, all house churches in Russia were abolished. At the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, there were 51,400 churches in Russia, of which 2,200 were home churches and at educational institutions, 260 were military, including hospital ones.

Thus, the share of house churches among all churches in Russia was about 5%. In the capital Petrograd, house churches accounted for about half of the approximately 500 Orthodox churches.

Among them: 120 - in hospitals, hospitals and almshouses, 75 - in educational institutions, 25 - in government institutions, 20 - in palaces, 10 - in prisons, 10 - in factories.

In history modern Russia With the increase in temples, the construction of house temples is resumed.

In 1990, Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad and Novgorod, the future His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', consecrated the first prison church. “The more churches there are in Russia, the fewer prisons there will be,” the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church would later say.

In the same 1990, the Church of the Holy Right-Believing Tsarevich Demetrius at the First City Hospital of Moscow was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church and, already as Patriarch, Alexy II re-consecrated it on November 22.

At the beginning next year On January 25 (1991) in the building of the former home church of Moscow State University, His Holiness the Patriarch served a prayer service with an akathist to St. Martyr Tatiana. On January 22, 1995, after a confrontation between the church community and the Moscow State University Student Theater, the building was returned to the Church.

In 1997, the current law “On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations” came into force. The law does not directly sanction, but does not prohibit the establishment of house churches. Article 16 only says that religious organizations have the right to conduct rituals in medical institutions, in places of deprivation of liberty, etc. in premises specially allocated by the administration for these purposes.

Regarding military units, the same article only says that the command does not prevent military personnel from participating in religious services.

Opponents of house churches insist on the constitutional principle of separation of religious associations from the state and refer to Article 6 of the law under consideration, according to which “The creation of religious associations in government bodies, ... state institutions ..., military units, state and municipal organizations is prohibited.”

Obviously, the creation of a home temple within an organization or institution does not mean the creation of a religious association there. Employees and employees of an institution may or may not attend religious services, just as they may or may not use the services of a canteen or cultural center attached to it.

The activity of the Church in establishing house churches was justified at the Anniversary Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, where the “Fundamentals social concept Russian Orthodox Church". The document enshrines the activities of creating prison and hospital churches and notes the peculiarity of pastoral service in the troops.

Over the past decade, the tradition of creating home churches at institutions various types resumed. Their number is growing rapidly today, but is difficult to count and analyze, since the published data is not synchronized either in time or by object of accounting.

I will provide some statistical data.

The total number of churches in Russia and Ukraine today is slightly more than half of the number of churches in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century.

There are more than 500 churches and 700 prayer rooms in the Russian penal system. This means that each “zone” has either a temple or a prayer room.

There are more than seventy churches at Russian universities. In St. Petersburg there are about 20, in Moscow - more than 10. The number of churches in absolute values approximately corresponds to the beginning of the twentieth century, but the number of universities themselves in Russia has increased at least 7 times (from 100 to 700).

There are 35 hospital churches in the capital Moscow today (out of 800 churches). In the capital Petrograd there were 70 of them (for 500 churches). Significant reduction in quantity. The percentage reduction is even greater, given that the number of hospitals has increased by 2 - 3 times.

There is no data on the number of military temples. There is also no data on the number of home churches at state and public institutions and organizations.

Today, all power ministries have home churches: the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, Federal service security, the Federal Tax Police Service, as well as many of their educational institutions and departmental structures. There is also a house church in the General Prosecutor's Office, which finally removes the question of the legality of establishing house churches in state institutions, since the prosecutor's office is the body overseeing the legality.

There are house churches at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Star City (the most beautiful of the new ones), at the Kievsky Station, in the Universitetskaya Hotel (the highest location is the 15th floor). There is a temple on the roof of the building (School of Dramatic Art theater) and in the basement (MEPhI building). In the Accounts Chamber, the temple is a hall with an altar in it.

One of the last among the house churches was the consecration of the church in the building of the Ostankino television center in honor of the martyr Porfiry on his memory day, September 28, 2010.

The holy martyr Porfiry was an actor and lived in the 4th century. On the birthday of Emperor Julian the Apostate, he took part in a performance in which he was supposed to mock the sacrament of Holy Baptism. Having immersed himself in the water, according to the script, he pronounced the baptismal formula and emerged from the water as a Christian, after which, instead of blasphemy, he openly confessed Christ as God. The emperor immediately ordered him to be tortured and beheaded.

At the consecration of the temple, Bishop Sergius of Solnechnogorsk said:

The holy martyr Porfiry gives an example of the power of words... From today you have a very convenient place where you can think before you speak, the bishop added.

The appearance of the temple in the Television Center is the personal merit of its director Mikhail Markovich Shubin. Unfortunately, the emergence of most house churches of institutions depends entirely on the worldview of their leaders.

Since the opening of the first house churches, their legal status has remained uncertain.

Students, as the most active part of society, have taken a step towards bringing clarity. On March 27, 2009, the first conference of house churches at Russian universities took place, at which an appeal was drawn up to the clergy with a request to begin resolving the issue of the legal status of house churches and the forms of Orthodox presence in universities.

Indeed, if existing house churches are financially dependent on the administration of institutions (the majority are such), then church life prone to degradation. If churches are not financially dependent (a small part), they can simply be liquidated. And even if a home church is opened by an Orthodox leader, then with a change of leadership there is a great possibility of its closure.

Tsypin V., prot. Church law course: Tutorial/ with the blessing of Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II. Klin: Foundation " Christian life", 2002, p. 433

Ibid., p.434

Book of Rules of the Holy Apostles, Holy Councils of the Ecumenical and Local and the Holy Fathers: With alphabetical index. M.: Publishing house named after St. Leo, Pope of Rome, 2009, p. 18

Ibid., p.158

Book of Rules of the Holy Apostles, Holy Councils of the Ecumenical and Local and the Holy Fathers: With alphabetical index. M.: Publishing house named after St. Leo, Pope of Rome, 2009, p.86

Ibid., p.125

Ibid., p.258

Tsypin V., prot. Course of Church Law: Textbook / with the blessing of Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II. Klin: Christian Life Foundation, 2002, p.440

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Church of the Saints Equal to the Apostles

Konstantin and Elena

The home church of Saints Constantine and Helen, which is the solid foundation of spirituality at our university, dates back to 1869. Even in the first land management educational institution in Russia, the Konstantinovsky Land Surveying Institute (KMI), which originated from the land surveying school founded by Catherine II in 1779, and gave birth to State University according to land management, there was its own house church. At that time it was located in the institute building on Staraya Basmannaya Street. After the institute moved to a new building located in Gorokhovsky Lane, construction began new church Saints Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helen, and on March 24, 1874, the temple was consecrated again. New status big church changed, now it has become the home church of the KMI, and the priest Andrei Grigorievich Polotebnov became the rector of the church. KMI participated in the construction and arrangement of the house church large number famous architects, artists, woodcarvers, icon painters and other craftsmen. The choir of students from the Survey Institute also became widely known in Moscow. All the parishioners loved the temple. And the students of the university were deservedly proud of the unique church, built exclusively at the expense of graduates and teachers of the institute, who took care of its splendor.

Church of Saints Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helen at the Konstantinovsky Land Survey Institute.

More than 50 years before the time of the liquidation of the temple, it played a leading role in the spiritual and moral education of students, and during periods of difficult trials and during the war, it provided material assistance to the state.

With the advent of Soviet power, persecution of the Church began. Having separated the Church from the state and the school from the Church, the Soviet government took away all legal and civil rights from the Church, which created conditions for the closure of churches and monasteries. In 1918, the KMI house church was sealed by decree on the closure of churches. In 1920, the temple was closed completely, and the church ensemble was destroyed.

Many years later, by the grace of God, the country turned to its Orthodox origins and traditions. The rector of the university, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Professor S.N. Volkov, May 25, 1999, proclaimed the program spiritual rebirth university, and above all the reconstruction of the house church. Architectural and planning solutions and a design for the iconostasis of the church were developed, and with the blessing of Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II, construction, planning and artistic work began.

Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II and university rector S.N. Volkov on the day of the consecration of the university’s house church on June 6, 2001.

In addition to professional craftsmen, teachers and students of the Faculty of Architecture took an active part in the reconstruction of the temple, who took upon themselves the preparation of historical and artistic materials related to the house church at the KMI, as well as the actual painting of the walls and ceiling.

Students of the university's Faculty of Architecture paint the walls of the house church.

The rector of Epiphany has provided and continues to provide great assistance in the matter of spiritual and moral revival of the university cathedral in Moscow the protopresbyter is Father Matthew Stadnyuk.

The rector of the Epiphany Cathedral, Protopresbyter Father Matthew, and the rector of the university, S.N. Volkov, in the home church of Saints Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helen.

In addition, the care of the construction of the temple was entrusted to the cleric of the Epiphany Cathedral, Archpriest Nikolai Stepanyuk.

In April 2001, the construction of the house temple was completed, and on June 6, 2001 His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' consecrated the house church.

Consecration of the university's house church by Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus'.

The newly recreated church of St. Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helena, received his new life, and, as before, became the pillar of morality and spirituality of the university, strengthening the hearts of all who come to it in faith and piety, love for the Motherland and their profession.

HOUSE TEMPLE

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A home temple or home church is a temple located at any building, institution and intended for a corresponding group of believers: for example, students educational institution, hospital patients, factory workers, etc. This is the difference between a house church and a parish church, which is intended for all believers, especially those living nearby - i.e. in the parish of the church.

Architecturally, house churches are very diverse. A home church can be either a separate building (for example, a church in the courtyard of a prison); or built into the mundane, but highlighted by some architectural features in the general structure of a composite building (for example, a dome crowning multi-storey building); interior space not highlighted in any way appearance buildings.

Sometimes everyone can get into the house temple; in other cases, access to outside visitors is closed.

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