Consecration of the Hospital Church – Photo exhibition

Yeysk • October, 23, 2011

On October, 23, a new orthodox church, built on the territory of the Yeysk Central District Hospital, was consecrated. Its construction was financed by the Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Charitable Foundation. The church was built in honour of great Orthodox zealot St Luka Voino-Yasenetsky, who besides his ministry and devotion to the Orthodox Church, was a distinguished surgeon and scholar, known all over the world. The church built in his honour and his small monument set up near the church symbolize fundamentals of mercy and deliverance from sufferings of body and spirit, which are to guide medicine in its service to people.

His Eminence Bishop German of Yeysk, vicar of Yekaterinodar
eparchy served the Divine Liturgy in the newly consecrated church.

In his address to the congregation and clergy he emphasized the important role of the Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Charitable Foundation in realizing charity programs in spiritual and cultural life of the town and the whole Krasnodar Krai.

Responding to his address M. I. Chepel, General Manager of the Foundation, expressed his thanks to the church hierarch and congratulated citizens with the dedication of the new church.

The ceremonial part of the event was followed by consecration of the monument to St Luka. The bronze monument was cast from the drawing of Moscow sculptor A.S.Demin and presented to the town by Orthodox patrons A.Y.Bykov and M.I.Chepel and honoured citizen of Yeysk, member of the Foundation’s Board of Guardians Y.A.Kotenko.

After the monument was consecrated, a row of benefactors, parishioners and builders who had made valuable contribution to the church construction were presented with awards of honour – medals and merit certificates, also church services for their health were ordered to Russian monasteries for one year.

The dedication of the district hospital church wasn’t the only event organized by the Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Charitable Foundation in Yeysk that day. On 23 October 2011, a photo exhibition called “Ten years of Charity” was opened. The exhibition was dedicated to the milestones in the 10 year activity of the Foundation. Representatives of the administration and the clergy headed by Bishop German and citizens visited the exhibition.