Chapel of All Saints in Transvaal Park in Yasenevo
The term “All Saints” encompasses both canonized saints and those who remained unknown during their lifetime and are therefore not formally venerated. The New Testament source of this imagery is the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse) of John the Theologian: “Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, ‘Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!’” – Revelation 5:11-13. “After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!’ And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, ‘Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.’ Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, ‘Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?’ I said to him, ‘Sir, you know.’ And he said to me, ‘These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.’” – Revelation 7:9-14. The Church-Chapel of “All Saints” in Yasenevo, located on the grounds of the “Moreon” multifunctional family recreation and health rehabilitation complex at the address: Moscow, Golubinskaya Street, 16, serves as a memorial monument at the site of the tragic loss of life in the “Transvaal Park” water park on February 14, 2004. By a resolution of the Public Council under the Mayor of Moscow dated March 16, 2005, a decision was made to construct a memorial church. In the resolution of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia № 3726 dated June 15, 2005, the parish of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Uzkoye was entrusted with providing advisory assistance in the construction of the church-chapel. With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, on February 14, 2006, Archbishop Arseny of Istra performed the Rite of the Foundation of the Church. The chapel was attached to the Church of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos in Yasenevo, Moscow, in 2015.
Address: Moscow, Golubinskaya St., 16, building 2
