Chirchik and something interesting
Chirchik - a small provincial town, located a half hour drive from Tashkent. Residents of Tashkent and the surrounding areas often pass by this city, because it is located on the way to holiday villages, recreational areas and Charvak reservoir.
Chirchik seems to me a quiet and calm town with a shady and rather narrow streets, which used to be, and still are concentrated with many intellectuals.
The central square of the city.
The building hokimiyat (city hall) of the city of Chirchik.
City Palace of Culture.
Mosque.
At first I thought it was Chirchik River, after whom the city is named. But as it turned out this channel is called "Zach", which translates as "ice". Indeed the water in it is very cold. But still beautiful.
If you enter the town from Tashkent's side you can see on the road a beautiful buildind, built of bricks - it is the church of the former village Troickoe (Trinity).
Trinity is located on the right bank of the river Chirchik, 30 km from Tashkent, near the ruined fortress of Kokand city Niyazbek.
The first residents of this place were migrants from different provinces of European Russia, Siberia and part of Semirechensk area. The late arrival at the place of settlement did not allow peasants to spring crops. Some families even before that, for a year or two had been wandering around Western Siberia and other places, living on the last crumbs gathered for the travel after the sale of property at home. Surprisingly, despite of all the difficulties, in a small, just starting out, already starving village, three months after its founding, in September, people opened the school. It occupied one room in the house of a local village elder. There also lived Belocerkovskiy - a former student of the Tashkent gymnasium. Teacher Belotserkovskiy attituded to his work not only with zeal and sincerity, but with considerable selflessness. For the children he was not only a teacher and educator. The school received monthly from Tashkent from a private person 40 rubles, 10 of which teacher used to pay for the various needs of the school, and the remaining money he spent to buy products for school dinner, which was cooked by the wife of village elder. During the dinner-time all students and Belocerkovskiy sat at one table and ate the dinner together. In addition, Belotserkovskiy made great efforts to make clothes for the children of the school. Thanks to him for the New Year holidays all the boys got red shirts and blue pants, new hats, coats and boots, and girls - the new summer dresses, scarves, warm coats and shoes. The teacher was also a rural clerk. And this duty he performed in the most diligent manner. He knew about people, their families and needs sometimes better than the village elder knew. He knew who plowed the land and how much, who was away from the village, who is partial to vodka (to the credit of the peasants only one of the villagers loved to "zashibat"). The teacher served the residents of the village as the doctor too. If anyone in the village fell ill, Belotserkovskiy went to the patient, put the diagnosis and gave the drug from his small first-aid kit. Apparently, quite successfully, as patients trusted him and often asked him for medical help. Finally, Belotserkovskiy bore, as noted "exclusively on his own personal motives," a deacon (priest) duties. There were no chapel or priest in the village only a small chapel where villagers gathered to the sound of the bells on holidays and Sundays. Here, the teacher read prayers, some of them were sung by the chorus under his leadership. He also explained the importance and history of the holidays and held moral conversations.
In 1894, residents of the Trinity made a public verdict to construct the temple in their village. Turkestan spiritual consistory on September 11, 1895 in the name of the peasant Demetrius Demidenko has been given a book to collect donations within the Diocese of Turkestan to build the temple in Trinity. On 14 June 1896 the villagers received the blessing of the Bishop of Turkestan and Tashkent's Nikon to build a house of worship, and set to work.
By that time they were possessed with 600 rubles of public money, as well as 319 rubles collected by the team book. Launched on June 20, the building of a house of worship was over by 1 February 1897, and on 9 February, the new chapel was consecrated in the name of St. George the Victorious priest Eustathius Lyubimskiy together with the priest Konstantin Stoberskim that on 20 May 1896 was sent to the village of Trinity as the first priest .
House of worship was built of mud bricks under the earthen roof. It was a one room up 17.5 and 7.5 yards wide. The floor was paved with baked bricks, the altar had a wooden floor. Pretty nifty iconostasis was made in the workshop of the Tashkent City four-year college, the icons were painted by a local artist-lover Lepekhina. The building of this house of worship has been preserved.
After the establishment of Soviet government this chapel was turned into the house of the village council, then into the school №2, and later into a store materials. This chapel served the residents of the village for nearly four years until a new church was built. In 1897, a civil engineer V.S. Geyntselman made a draft of a new church building for the village of Trinity.
On September 8, 1898 with the blessing of the Bishop of Turkestan and Tashkent Arcadia the laying of a new church was made. Choice of place for the church was very successful, soon here appeared the busiest center of not only the village, but also of the whole eastern territory of the Tashkent district. Two years later the construction was completed.
Temple was built with the money allocated by the Governor General A.B. Vrevsky and donations. On November 23, 1900 a new church was consecrated in the name of George Victorious.
Trinity Church on the general composition, and the silhouette is much different from the other church buildings of Tashkent and its surroundings. Cruciform in plan, it includes a porch, central part and the altar. The central part is two-tier, pyramidal roof over it is ended with a round drum with a head and a metal cross. The altar of the church and porch are single-stage, with a pitched roof. Wooden iconostasis was made by drawing of the civil engineer Kisilov in the studio of the Tashkent prison, but the icons were not very fine. Shortly after the construction of the temple, the villagers decided to build out , with public money and with proper permission, the bell tower, which could serve as a room for the watchman and as a storeroom. The bell tower was placed on the west side, at 7 meters from the church, and was connected with it by 4m-wide gallery which had two entrance doors to the south and to the north. On November 25, 1903 in the workshops of the partnership of F. Blok the bell, commissioned for the church of the village of Trinity, was casted. The bell weighed about a hundred pounds (1.5 ton). It was only the second case of casting bells in Central Asia with local resources .
From the first years of existence the village of Trinity largely overtook some villages not only the Tashkent district, but of the whole Syrdarya region. Nowadays, except for the church building and a house of worship, the building of parichial school and some old houses have been preserved. Bell tower of Trinity Church was demolished, only the lower part, where the storeroom was, has been preserved. In 1980, the temple on the north side was added with a new entrance, drawings of which corresponded to the facade. In 1984, at the altar, beneath the layers of lime and paint the mural was discovered, quite well preserved - it was an image of four saints: Basil the Great, John Chrysostom and the holy martyrs Cosmas and Damian. In the same year, they have been cleaned and restored. In the whole, church, that has preserved its original appearance, is the monument and example of the creative activity of one of the most famous architects of the pre-revolutionary Turkestan - V.S. Heinzelman, who successfully used in the architecture the edge of compositional techniques of ancient russian architecture.
On February 22, 1996 at the meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church by the request of His Grace the Archbishop of Tashkent and Central Asia Vladimir (now Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia), it was agreed to transform the church in Chirchik into the monastery.
Currently, this is the first and so far the only one in the entire Central Asian Diocese monastery..There are 10 people live in the monastry. Monastry is involved in public life of the town: they hold a library, edit a wallpaper "Lampada", service Sunday school and hold "Spiritual meetings".
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Also, there are many beautiful girls in Chirchik... ;)
The central square of the city.
The building hokimiyat (city hall) of the city of Chirchik.
City Palace of Culture.
Mosque.
At first I thought it was Chirchik River, after whom the city is named. But as it turned out this channel is called "Zach", which translates as "ice". Indeed the water in it is very cold. But still beautiful.
If you enter the town from Tashkent's side you can see on the road a beautiful buildind, built of bricks - it is the church of the former village Troickoe (Trinity).
Trinity is located on the right bank of the river Chirchik, 30 km from Tashkent, near the ruined fortress of Kokand city Niyazbek.
The first residents of this place were migrants from different provinces of European Russia, Siberia and part of Semirechensk area. The late arrival at the place of settlement did not allow peasants to spring crops. Some families even before that, for a year or two had been wandering around Western Siberia and other places, living on the last crumbs gathered for the travel after the sale of property at home. Surprisingly, despite of all the difficulties, in a small, just starting out, already starving village, three months after its founding, in September, people opened the school. It occupied one room in the house of a local village elder. There also lived Belocerkovskiy - a former student of the Tashkent gymnasium. Teacher Belotserkovskiy attituded to his work not only with zeal and sincerity, but with considerable selflessness. For the children he was not only a teacher and educator. The school received monthly from Tashkent from a private person 40 rubles, 10 of which teacher used to pay for the various needs of the school, and the remaining money he spent to buy products for school dinner, which was cooked by the wife of village elder. During the dinner-time all students and Belocerkovskiy sat at one table and ate the dinner together. In addition, Belotserkovskiy made great efforts to make clothes for the children of the school. Thanks to him for the New Year holidays all the boys got red shirts and blue pants, new hats, coats and boots, and girls - the new summer dresses, scarves, warm coats and shoes. The teacher was also a rural clerk. And this duty he performed in the most diligent manner. He knew about people, their families and needs sometimes better than the village elder knew. He knew who plowed the land and how much, who was away from the village, who is partial to vodka (to the credit of the peasants only one of the villagers loved to "zashibat"). The teacher served the residents of the village as the doctor too. If anyone in the village fell ill, Belotserkovskiy went to the patient, put the diagnosis and gave the drug from his small first-aid kit. Apparently, quite successfully, as patients trusted him and often asked him for medical help. Finally, Belotserkovskiy bore, as noted "exclusively on his own personal motives," a deacon (priest) duties. There were no chapel or priest in the village only a small chapel where villagers gathered to the sound of the bells on holidays and Sundays. Here, the teacher read prayers, some of them were sung by the chorus under his leadership. He also explained the importance and history of the holidays and held moral conversations.
In 1894, residents of the Trinity made a public verdict to construct the temple in their village. Turkestan spiritual consistory on September 11, 1895 in the name of the peasant Demetrius Demidenko has been given a book to collect donations within the Diocese of Turkestan to build the temple in Trinity. On 14 June 1896 the villagers received the blessing of the Bishop of Turkestan and Tashkent's Nikon to build a house of worship, and set to work.
By that time they were possessed with 600 rubles of public money, as well as 319 rubles collected by the team book. Launched on June 20, the building of a house of worship was over by 1 February 1897, and on 9 February, the new chapel was consecrated in the name of St. George the Victorious priest Eustathius Lyubimskiy together with the priest Konstantin Stoberskim that on 20 May 1896 was sent to the village of Trinity as the first priest .
House of worship was built of mud bricks under the earthen roof. It was a one room up 17.5 and 7.5 yards wide. The floor was paved with baked bricks, the altar had a wooden floor. Pretty nifty iconostasis was made in the workshop of the Tashkent City four-year college, the icons were painted by a local artist-lover Lepekhina. The building of this house of worship has been preserved.
After the establishment of Soviet government this chapel was turned into the house of the village council, then into the school №2, and later into a store materials. This chapel served the residents of the village for nearly four years until a new church was built. In 1897, a civil engineer V.S. Geyntselman made a draft of a new church building for the village of Trinity.
On September 8, 1898 with the blessing of the Bishop of Turkestan and Tashkent Arcadia the laying of a new church was made. Choice of place for the church was very successful, soon here appeared the busiest center of not only the village, but also of the whole eastern territory of the Tashkent district. Two years later the construction was completed.
Temple was built with the money allocated by the Governor General A.B. Vrevsky and donations. On November 23, 1900 a new church was consecrated in the name of George Victorious.
Trinity Church on the general composition, and the silhouette is much different from the other church buildings of Tashkent and its surroundings. Cruciform in plan, it includes a porch, central part and the altar. The central part is two-tier, pyramidal roof over it is ended with a round drum with a head and a metal cross. The altar of the church and porch are single-stage, with a pitched roof. Wooden iconostasis was made by drawing of the civil engineer Kisilov in the studio of the Tashkent prison, but the icons were not very fine. Shortly after the construction of the temple, the villagers decided to build out , with public money and with proper permission, the bell tower, which could serve as a room for the watchman and as a storeroom. The bell tower was placed on the west side, at 7 meters from the church, and was connected with it by 4m-wide gallery which had two entrance doors to the south and to the north. On November 25, 1903 in the workshops of the partnership of F. Blok the bell, commissioned for the church of the village of Trinity, was casted. The bell weighed about a hundred pounds (1.5 ton). It was only the second case of casting bells in Central Asia with local resources .
From the first years of existence the village of Trinity largely overtook some villages not only the Tashkent district, but of the whole Syrdarya region. Nowadays, except for the church building and a house of worship, the building of parichial school and some old houses have been preserved. Bell tower of Trinity Church was demolished, only the lower part, where the storeroom was, has been preserved. In 1980, the temple on the north side was added with a new entrance, drawings of which corresponded to the facade. In 1984, at the altar, beneath the layers of lime and paint the mural was discovered, quite well preserved - it was an image of four saints: Basil the Great, John Chrysostom and the holy martyrs Cosmas and Damian. In the same year, they have been cleaned and restored. In the whole, church, that has preserved its original appearance, is the monument and example of the creative activity of one of the most famous architects of the pre-revolutionary Turkestan - V.S. Heinzelman, who successfully used in the architecture the edge of compositional techniques of ancient russian architecture.
On February 22, 1996 at the meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church by the request of His Grace the Archbishop of Tashkent and Central Asia Vladimir (now Metropolitan of Tashkent and Central Asia), it was agreed to transform the church in Chirchik into the monastery.
Currently, this is the first and so far the only one in the entire Central Asian Diocese monastery..There are 10 people live in the monastry. Monastry is involved in public life of the town: they hold a library, edit a wallpaper "Lampada", service Sunday school and hold "Spiritual meetings".
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