Three Saints Church

Golberg's Church, Golber's, Trinity Church
Ukraine, Kharkiv
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Three Saints Church

Golberg's Church, Golber's, Trinity Church
Ukraine, Kharkiv
The Three Saints Church (“Golberovskaya”) is an Orthodox church in Kharkov on the street of the First Cavalry Army (former Zaikovskaya), 101, built in 1907-1915 on the initiative of the chairman of the City Merchant Society of the merchant of the first guild Grigory Osipovich Golberg and his wife Maria on their own land plot. The temple is named after three Orthodox Saints: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom.
On January 9, 1906, at a parish gathering of the inhabitants of Zaikovskaya and the streets adjacent to it, organized by the dean of the district of the Transfiguration Church, priest Peter Father Fomin, at which it was decided to build a temple in the name of the Three Hierarchs on a voluntary basis and a Construction Committee was elected, whose chairman was G.O. Golberg. It was announced that M. S. Golberg donates for the construction of the temple a plot belonging to her on Zaikovskaya Street (750 sq. sazhens = 0.34 hectares), and G. O. Golberg himself donates 10 thousand rubles for its construction and undertakes to contribute to the construction . On February 24, 1906, the Construction Committee in the elected composition was approved by the Diocesan Administration and began activities to prepare the construction of the temple, develop a project and collect donations.
The project was developed by the architect M.I. Lovtsov in the form of a Moscow five-domed building with a hipped bell tower, but on the basis of a fundamentally new constructive solution, previously implemented in the St. Petersburg Church of the Kiev-Pechersk Compound (1895-1900, architect V.A. Kosyakov). A feature of the design is the absence of internal load-bearing pillars: the vast hall of the temple is covered with paired crossed reinforced concrete arches, on the intersection of which the central light drum with a dome rests.

The laying of the Three Saints Church took place on September 2, 1906, already without the participation of the seriously ill M.I. Lovtsov, under the guidance of the new diocesan architect V.N. Pokrovsky, who completed the construction.
The painting of the church was carried out for two years by the St. Petersburg painter A. Ya. Sokolov (graduate of the Academy of Arts, student of I. E. Repin and V. A. Serov), combining a modern style, new for those years, with observance of the canon. The original iconostasis was made in Italy according to the drawings of V. N. Pokrovsky. On the sides of the iconostasis are icon cases with icons of the Three Hierarchs and the Holy Great Martyr Mary.
The area of ​​the temple allowed to accommodate up to 650 people during the service. About 2 million bricks were used for the construction, and the total cost of all work amounted to 200 thousand rubles. Construction was largely completed at the end of 1914. The church was consecrated by Metropolitan Flavian on May 29, 1915.
After the revolution of 1917, in 1923 the Church of the Three Hierarchs was turned into a warehouse, where church property was brought from closed churches. But already on March 17, 1925, in response to the petition of 50 residents of the Zaikovskaya Street area, the provincial executive committee concluded an agreement with the believers on the transfer to them of the free unlimited use of the building and the items of worship listed in the inventory attached to the agreement.

In a short time, the temple gained great popularity among Kharkovites, surpassing the number of parishioners (1918 people) of the city and the cathedral. Managed all the affairs of the temple of the Parish Church Council, elected by the parishioners, the number of which was originally a little over a hundred people. Until 1929, Ya. M. Derevyanko was its chairman.
At the temple there was an independent Orthodox sister organization, which was in charge of decorating and cleaning the temple, helped the watchman, repaired robes and vestments, observed order during worship and in religious processions.

The surviving archival documents on the activities of the Church Council of the Three Saints Church end in 1929, but it is known that the church continued to operate until the pre-war years. The rector of the temple P. Fomin and the headman V. I. Skorkin were shot on charges of anti-Soviet activities.

Divine services resumed in 1941, continuing during the Nazi occupation. The official registration of the temple took place in 1944. Later, the Kharkiv Old Believer community (Belokrinitsky consent) was “settled” in the basement of the temple (planned as the tomb of Gregory and Maria Golberg).
The temple is known for its choir under the direction of Igor Sakhno (organized in 1984, since 1988 - on the main kliros), reviving the traditions of church chanting. At divine services, Russian statutory monophonic singing is used - pillar chant, Byzantine singing with isocratic and Georgian church three-part chant. For liturgical needs, chants in Greek and Georgian are usually adapted to the Church Slavonic text.

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