Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Listy (Moscow)

Church of St. Philip in Meshchanskaya Sloboda Russia · Moscow

Siberia Metochion is situated on the Church's precincts. The Church was built in 1777–1788 by the architect Matvey Kazakov, who added a rotunda containing the main altar of St. Philip, the Metropolitan of Moscow, to the already existing refectory and bell tower (both built in 1752). On the site of a demolished old church built in the mid-17th centu...

Church of the Dormition, Church of the Assumption in Pechatniki Russia · Moscow

The Church of the Dormition in Pechatniki is situated in Moscow at the corner of Sretenka Street and Rozhdestvensky Boulevard. The area called Pechatniki was named after print workers (Russian "pechatniki") who lived there and worked in the Moscow Print Yard. No documents about time and facts of the original church in Pechatnaya Sloboda have sur...

Memorial Chapel to the Hero Grenadiers of Plevna Russia · Moscow

During Soviet times, the chapel in Ilyinsky Square seemed to be a strange monument of far-off years. It was a real miracle that it remained standing there between the buildings of the Central Committees of the Communist Party and Komsomol. There was hardly anyone who could remember the words said by Lieutenant Colonel I. Sokol on the opening day: "...