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Rogozhskaya Zastava Spiritual Centre of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church.
Rogozhskaya
Sloboda is a historical district of Moscow that emerged in the late
16th century. Old-rite merchant families traditionally settled there and
the district became the spiritual centre for Moscow’s old believers’
community. Today, the architectural ensemble counts 50 buildings,
including the cathedral Church of the Nativity of Christ, Cathedral of
the Intercession, the main cathedral for the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite
Church. The site is home to the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church’s
Metropolitan.
Metropolitan Korniliy, Primate of Russian Old Believer
Church: "The Old Beliefs are the Christianity that Prince Vladimir
brought to Russia ten centuries ago. The Old Believers are the most
Russian of all the Russian people and the most Orthodox of them as
well".
The Old-believers’ Rogozhskoe cemetery in Moscow likewise
bears its history from during the reign of Empress Catherine II.
Cemeteries are considered special places in Old-believers’ religious
culture as being secretive locations where the faithful could gather
together for communal prayers without significant impediments.
The
first church built was dedicated to St. Nicholas. Then was constructed a
great chapel in honor of the most-holy Theotokos, in particular, in
honor of the holyday of her protection (Pokrov). It was unequaled in
Moscow as per the volume of its interior.
During Napoleon’s invasion
of 1812, the French captured the Rogozhski complex, but the rogozhane
had time to flee and hide the main treasures. At the expulsion of
Napoleon from Moscow, the capitol was occupied by the Don Cossacks, most
of whom were old-believers. The famous Ataman Platov (of the Don
Cossacks) was also an old-believer. He presented his mobile church
(still extant) to the Rogozhski complex.
The Russian Orthodox
Old-Rite Church (or Russian Orthodox Oldritualist Church, Russian
Orthodox Old-Ritualist Church) (Russian: Русская Православная
Старообрядческая Церковь) is an Eastern Orthodox Church of the Old
Believers tradition, which rejected the liturgical and canonical reforms
of Patriarch Nikon in the second half of 17th century (Old Believers).
It is one of the two Old Believers churches that belong to the
Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy - together with the Orthodox Old-Rite Church,
sometimes also called Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church.
Since the
18th century until the Council of 1988, the official self-designation of
this Church was the Old Orthodox Church of Christ (Древлеправославная
Церковь Христова) which should not be confused with Russian Old-Orthodox
Church, another church of the Old Believers. Drevlepravoslavie
("Old/Ancient Orthodoxy") was the common self-designation of the Old
Believers and their cause since the 17th century.
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