The Church of St. Nicholas was supposedly built in either 1672–1673 or in 1699–1702 in the centre of Semyonovskaya Village located in Zemlyanoy Gorod near Taganskiye Gate.
Asymmetrical composition of the building consisting of a double-height square with five domes (the main altar of Our Lady of Kazan), a triple apse and a refectory (known as the side chapel of Three Holy Hierarchs since 1756) with the northern side chapel of St. Nicholas, is in line with tradition of the 17th-century Moscow suburb construction style. The side chapel of St. Nicholas, which treated as an independent church, has a single-dome double-height rectangular volume, a rounded apse and a refectory. This significantly enriches the building's silhouette and makes it look beautiful from either side.
It is obvious that a bell tower was originally situated on the west side, but was replaced by a porch with an open arcade in the 19th century. In the second half of the 19th century, the southern facade of the Church was distorted by a bulky closed porch. The Church, with pilaster strips in the corners, is crowned with two rows of alternately placed kokoshniks. The drums of five domes are adorned with blind arcade, and the principle cornices are enriched with booms of small niches and dentils, as well as a curb.
Keel-shaped and triangular window casing knobs are implemented in different ways and somehow diversify the rectangular facade decor. The separation walls between the openings of the porch are decorated by thin double pilasters with shaped, white-stone bases and capitals.
In 1777, a freestanding three-tier gate bell tower was constructed in the northern curtain wall of the church fence. The bell tower was demolished in the early 1930s when the Church was closed.
The Church was reconstructed from 1966–1969. In 1996, it was consecrated as a centre of the Moscow Common Faith Community.
The church in Tsaritsyno, situated within the late-18th-century palace and park ensemble's grounds, was built long before the palace itself as a parish church of the Life-Giving Spring.
It is known that in 1633, the Chyornaya Gryaz Estate was bought by Boyar Lukyan Streshnev. In 1680, the estate was passed on to his grandson Prince Alexey Golits...
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