Saint Job Memorial Church (Brussels)
The Gedächtniskirche Sankt Job is a Russian Orthodox church in Uccle in the capital region of Brussels in Belgium. It is not to be confused with the Catholic Church Saint-Job / Sint-Job in the district of the same name.
She's Job and the memory of Tsar Nicholas II. , His family and all victims of the Russian Revolution consecrated and the subsequent Civil War ( Russian : Церковь в честь святого праведного Иова Многострадального, Dutch : Kerk ter ere van het lijden van de holy en rechtvaardige job , French : Eglise mémorial orthodoxe russe de Saint Job le juste aux maintes souffrances ).
The birthday of Tsar Nicholas II was May 6th according to the still valid Julian calendar , which is the feast day of Job according to the Orthodox calendar.
history
After the Russian Revolution, many Russians from the old tsarist elites fled and some settled in Western Europe. In Belgium, many Russians moved to Ixelles and Uccle because there was already a Russian Orthodox church on the property of the former tsarist embassy in Ixelles.
From 1928 onwards, donations were collected for an Orthodox church, and the foundation stone was laid on February 2, 1936. The church was financed entirely from its own resources. Most of the structure was built in 1938. Due to the Second World War, the church could not be consecrated until October 1, 1950 by Metropolitan Anastasius (1873-1965). The church has been a listed building since 1984. Between 2011 and 2014, extensive restorations were carried out by the Brussels Capital Region.
The architect Nicolas Istselenoff (or: Nicolaj Istselenov) was based on the orthodox transfigurational church in Ostrov from the 16th century, so that the architectural style is Old Russian, including the onion dome. The architect also supervised the construction and painted some icons in the church himself.
While the church members and the church were initially directly subordinate to the Russian Orthodox Church abroad , ie were " Stauropegic ", on September 6, 1964, an independent Russian Orthodox community was founded. The parish remained part of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad and still belongs to the diocese of Geneva and Western Europe. With this organization she was subordinated to the Patriarchate of Moscow in 2007 .
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literature
- Laurent Vermeersch: Waarom is the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukkel? Bruzz No. 1606, March 7, 2018, pages 30-31.
Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 52.3 " N , 4 ° 12 ′ 14.6" E