The Church of the Resurrection in the former Kalichia Sloboda (settlement) was built in brick in the late 1810s and consecrated in 1820.
In 1902, a covered western porch was attached; facades were finished with cement plaster.
The building architecture is contradictory. While the restrained external finishing is dominated by late classical features, the Church's typology and decorations of its crowning elements are rather drawn to the Baroque. The single-domed leaf-type church belongs to tiered buildings. Its double-height rectangular without columns, which is bridged with a cloistered vault with diagonal chutes, dominates the lowered altar and side exedras. The latter makes the interior transversal. A small refectory connected the Church with a four-tiered bell tower, only one tier of which has survived. Stability of Baroque traditions affected the Church's walls and its top decorated with pilaster strips and pilaster gabled galleries correspondingly. Before the 1902 restoration, large square "ladder" windows (with horizontal bars) with smooth frames had curved knobs with "ears", arch keystones, and developed cornices. The monument, unusual for its time, was deprived of personal character in Soviet time. Its drum, porches, and the bell tower were dismantled. However, today, the Church has been completely reconstructed.
Old iconostasis and furnishings have been lost. Two gates of the 19-th-century church fence with a corner tiered tower were of artistic interest.
Epiphany Monastery was founded by St. Daniel, the first Moscow prince, in 1296. He was a son of Blessed Grand Prince Alexander Nevsky. It is one of the oldest monasteries in Moscow. St. Sergius of Radonezh' older brother Stefan was one the Monastery's first abbots.
Epiphany temple was built in 1342 and replaced an original wooden church, which w...