6 Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street, Moscow, Metro stations: "Frunzenskaya", "Sportivnaya".
In 1890, medical clinics at Moscow Imperial University were opened on Devichye Pole in Moscow. The construction was financed by Emperor Alexander III and Moscow merchants. At the clinics a small Byzantine chapel was built where funeral services were performed.
Dmitry Storozhev, a Moscow merchant, had his own house in Bolshaya Tzaritzinskaya Street (now Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street) opposite the University clinics. He kept a notions store in Kazan Metochion and was a member of the Alexandrovskaya Hospital Council of the Moscow Merchant Society. Also he curated the Solodovnikov almshouse. The clergy of St. Michael's Church at the almshouse was supported with interest from the Storozhev's capital. Dmitry Storozhev and a Moscow merchant G. Bakhrushin were members of a school board of Gurieva's Almshouse.
Storozhev prepared a design of a new church. However, it was built after his death by his nephew S. Sotvorenkov in 1903 (architect B. Kozhevnikov).
The Church was consecrated on 25 September 1903, the remembrance day of Sergius of Radonezh, the spiritual adherent and friend of St. Dimitry Prilutsky, the saint patron of the new church. The consecration and the liturgy were served by the Right Reverend Parthenius, the bishop of Mozhaysk.
The Church was closed after 1917. In the 1960s, a print shop was situated in the Church. In the 1980s, there were an anaesthesiology laboratory of the 1st Moscow Medical Institute and an oxygen plant.
Restoration of the Church was initiated by doctors working in clinics of Moscow Medical Academy. The first renovation was done by the First Medical Institute.
It was not until 1990 that the Church was returned to the faithful. Devine service was resumed on 11 February 1991.
The Church holds relics of St. Pantaleon the Healer and the honoured Theotokos of St. Theodore.
At present, the Church has the Theotokos Icon of Jerusalem. The Icon was found in the Church's basement and restored. Restorers found an inscription on the back of the Icon evidencing that it was consecrated on the Holy Sepulchre and in Golgotha, Jerusalem, on 9 January 1905.
The Church was built in 1700 (the high altar is dedicated to the Our Lady of the Sign Icon) upon the arduous Ivanovskaya Gorka (Hill) in Kulishki District of Moscow (the right word is "kulizhki" translated as "a clearing in the woods"), near the Yauza River's mouth, by the Yauza Gate. It was constructed at the place of an ancient Church of SS. Pete...
By order of Empress Elizabeth I, on 15 July 1759, a stone church was laid in the marine regimental court, on the bank of the Kryukov Canal. It was constructed for naval men to a design by Savva Chevakinsky, the chief architect of the Admiralty Board. Construction of the temple was finished in 1760, and immediately it became a peculiar ornament to t...
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