The Church of the Resurrection of Christ was built from 1909 to 1913 by architect Pavel Tolstykh. The construction committee was chaired by Father Ioann (I. Kedrov); people named it Kedrovskaya Church (the Church of Kedrov).
Unlike other traditional Russian churches, this one is oriented the different direction. According to a legend, the chairman of the construction committee Protopriest Ioann Kedrov wanted that the apse was faced southward, where was the Christ's motherland. It is one of the most interesting religious buildings in Moscow of modern time, which is characterized by bright individual interpretation of neo-Russian architecture. The Church is raised on a basement. Its composition is based on a construction arrangement of a four-column, cross-domed church. The central part is crowned with a slim tent-like octagonal with four small domes placed diagonally. The facade cross's wide arms are completed with large scalloped arched gables (zakomaras); and the lowered corner cells — with domes on cylindrical drums. Nine domes of the Church emphasise the impressive dynamics of the growing up volumes making the silhouette of this big, monumental building delicately fragile that is typical of modernist style. The northern, eastern, and western entrances are preceded by gala staircases decorated with gable ends. Today, there is a belfry in the western perron. The Church's Old-Russian architecture-oriented image features keel-shaped kokoshniks in the basal parts of the domes and projected arched portals, surrounding the entrances and high slit-like windows. The interior is wide, well illuminated and has three naves. The side naves have side chapels dedicated to the Joy of All Who Sorrow Icon and SS. Peter and Paul. In the basement, there is a side chapel of the Nativity. Icon stands and floor eclectic icon cases made of bog-wood are wonderful.
In the 1920s, sacred objects of closed churches were moved to the Church. These were the Icon of Our Lady of Iviron supposedly coming from the Iviron Chapel near the Red Square, the Our Lady of Passion from the Passion Monastery in the Strastnaya (Pushkinskaya) Square, a copy of the wonder-working Bogolubskaya Icon of the Theotokos placed on the wall of the Varvarskiye Gates in Kitay-gorod, and the Icon of the Great Martyr and Healer St. Panteleon from St. Panteleon's Athos Chapel of Kitay-gorod, near the Lubyanskiye Gates. The Icon of Christ Pantocrator "in dark red robes" from the Novo-Alekseyevsky Monastery is kept in the left side chapel.
In the late 1920s and 1930s, the authorities made attempts to shut down the Church, but without any success mainly thanks to the believers' unity. After the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was closed in the 1930s, the main "pulpit" of the Renovationists, who declared it to be their "cathedral", was moved to the Resurrection Church.
In 1937, the Church was one of seven Moscow renovationist churches. In 1944, a Church's rector together with the parish returned to the Moscow Patriarchy.
In 1940–1970, the Church held meetings on famous days in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. In February 1945, there was a meeting of the Local Council, when Alexy I was elected as Patriarch. In 1948, the 500th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church's autocephaly was celebrated in the Church. The Church runs a Sunday school; at the Church, there is also a baptistery for baptising adults.
The Church's adjacent territory with a new fence, constructed in 2004, and clergy's houses occupy a small area in front of the main entrance to Sokolniki Park.
The Church's building is the most important architectural accent among the modern high-rise buildings. It looks very spectacular if seen from the alley leading from the Sokolniki Metro Station to the Park.
The first church, situated there, was first mentioned in 1644. However, it is not known exactly when it was founded, most likely even earlier. Vorobyovo Village itself has been known since 1453.
The now existing classical church was built from 1811 to 1813. Its interior and furnishings date back to the construction period.
The high altar is d...
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