the church of st. paraskeva or as people say loving spot, has not only an original volumetric-spatial composition, but also the history of its appearance. there is a legend that there was a pestilence in lepel, no help, no salvation from doctors or people. as always happens in our lives, the last step has already been decided turn to god, the lord heard them, several wines were lined up, a prayer service was ordered, and the pestilence began to cease and sneeze. the church of paraskeva friday, which saved lepel from pestilence, was built in 1868, to this day it is the guardian angel of this small, charming, quiet town, saint paraskeva patronizes family happiness and... by the way, paraskeva, translated from greek, is friday. we have especially revered icons, of course, this is the paraskev icon of friday, the patroness temple and city, the miraculous image of christ the savior, i have been serving here for many years, i noticed that people can stand in this icon and pray for hours, time seems to stop. in its lif

of the shrine. after mother raisa igumeni in the monastery, zhon the myrrh-bearer became mother. paraskeva on november 29, 2020, during the illumination of seraphim, bishop of babruisk , bykhov, in the house church in honor of the icon of the mother of god, the quick-to-be-heard convent of the holy myrrh-bearing women of the city of bobruisk, erected nun paraskeva in san abbess. my spiritual path began from the kiev-pokrovsky monastery, the founder of which is the grand duchess of the romanov family anastasia. mother the great one founded this wonderful monastery on the kiev hills more than 130 years ago. and so the lord, by his divine providence, brought me to kiev. i just visited on a pilgrimage. intercession monastery wished to stay there for obedience, day after day i asked the lord to reveal his will, because at that moment i had already graduated from the choreographic college in chisinau, where i was born, but somehow a change occurred in my heart, it became difficult for me to combine my profession that i chose and... the temple of god, there was some kind of split. nun paraskeva in the world natalya aleksandrovna elskaya, born in the city of chisinau. she received the sacrament of holy