According to documents, the church dates back to 1625, but there is assumption that the first church in the name of Simeon Stylites was built here at the time of Boris Godunov on the day of his coronation. In 1625, the high altar of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple was kept in the new church.
In 1635, the church was located "in Dekhtyarev kitchen garden".
The currently existing church building in the village of royal chefs was built in 1676–1679 by the decree of Tsar Feodor Romanov.
Built of big bricks on the white-stone basement, the church belongs to the traditional type of townsmen churches. The main cubic volume with two rows of windows and a low three-part altar is roofed with the cloistered vault and crowned with five blind domes with two levels of keel-like kokoshniks (corbel arches).
The interior space of the church is joined with a wide opening between the main church and the refectory. Side-chapels are open to the refectory and separated from it by two pillars supported on the arches. In the southern part of the western wall is a staircase on the upper tier of the bell tower.
In 1801, Count Nikolai Sheremetev got married to his serf actress Praskovia Zhemchugova-Kovaleva at the church.
In 1816, in this church, Sergey Aksakov got married to Olga Zaplatina, the daughter of one of the Suvorov generals and a captive Turkish woman, the beautiful Igel Syum. All the pundits and fans of the history of Moscow know that the church is mentioned in Chapter 7 of "Eugene Onegin": "an object of girlish dreams" of the Tatyana Larina's mother lived in the parish of "St. Simeon".
In 1852, the church priest gave the Lord's Supper to Nikolai Gogol living at Nikitsky Boulevard not far from the church before his death.
The church was closed in 1940, the paintings destroyed. The temple miraculously escaped destruction, although the decision to destroy it was already taken.
By 1966, the building was almost completely destroyed. With beginning of construction of Kalinina Prospekt (now Novy Arbat Street), the church was restored and renovated. Surrounding old houses were destroyed and the church now stands among the tall buildings on Novy Arbat Street on a small green lawn.
Since 1968, there has been the Exhibition hall of the All-Russian Association of Nature Protection in the church.
In 1990, crosses were restored on the domes.
In 1992, the church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church, and worshiping resumed. There is a bookstore inside the church.
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When passing the 22nd kilometre point of the road going from Rameshki to Kiverichi, one cannot help fixing his or her eyes on a grand stone church dedicated to the Epiphany. The Church is situated on a hill with Builovo graveyard around it. The word "graveyard" means an area around a parish church, where departed Christians are buried. The first bu...
Since 1620 a parish church of a weavers' village has stood at this place.
In 1657 a new stone temple with five domes and a tent-shaped bell tower was constructed.
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The Church building was damaged by reconstruction. ...
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