The Russian Revival Church was built in 1855 with greatest financial support from merchant M. Mushnikov as well as on donations from parishioners in Semyonovskoye Cemetery, founded in 1711 after the cholera epidemic.
Being a basilica-type building, popular in the second half of the 19th century, it is a large, stretched along the east-west axis double-height rectangular of the Church itself with a lowered triple apse and a small forechurch with a hipped-roof bell tower above it. Decorations with simplified graphically modelled details are eclectic with Russian Revival elements. Monotonous axial facades, unevenly separated by paired faceted half-columns, which correspond the positions of inner walls and columns, are slightly diversified with broken surfaces of the principle cornice, supplemented by panelled boarder. Keel-shaped frames of rectangular windows have survived on the southern facade only.
The furnishing details were designed by architect Konstantin Thon. The high altar is dedicated to the Resurrection of Christ, the side chapels — to the Joy of All Who Sorrow Icon (northern) and St. Vladimir the Great (southern).
In 1901, the refectory and the bell tower were reconstructed by architect A. Mikhailov. A side chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was arranged in the gallery. Bases of pilaster columns exactly reproduce the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour's construction. The Church had unique flooring made of Olonets marble.
In the 1930s, the Church was shut down. The dome was destroyed. Architectural decor, facing the street, was knocked down. The hipped-roof bell tower with an octagonal belfry was demolished. Annexes were added. Workshops occupied the Church.
In 1956, the cemetery was demolished, and a public garden was laid out instead.
In 1996, the building was handed back to the Russian Orthodox Church by the Decree No. 647 of the Moscow Government of 6 August 1996 "On the building, situated in 2 Izmailovskoye Highway, to be handed over to the parish of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in the former Semyonovskoye Cemetery".
Church services were resumed on Easter of 1998.
New paintings of the Church were finished in 2005 and 2006.
The Church's sacred objects include the icon of St. Augustine of Hippo with relics (a copy of the 14th-century mosaic image kept in Cefalu Cathedral, located in Sicily Island, Italy) and the icon of St. Matrona of Moscow with relics.
Representatives of Tashkent and Central Asian Dioceses are located in the Church. The Church also runs a Sunday school, an icon-painting school for children and adults, and a library.
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