Church of St. Theodore Stratelates (Moscow)

15A Arkhangelsky Lane, Moscow, Metro stations: "Turgenevskaya", "Chistye Prudy".

The Church of St. Theodore Stratelates was built in 1782–1806 as a heated addition to the Church of Gabriel the Archangel. The design of the Church is attributed to the architect Ivan Yegotov.

Originally, the Church was consecrated in the name of St. Theodore Teron; after the side-altar of St. Theodore Stratelates was set up in 1806, followed by a significant redevelopment of the building in the second half of the 19th century, the Church acquired its present name.

The Church was designed to serve not only as a winter church at Menshikov Tower (the Church of Gabriel the Archangel), but also as a bell tower, which explains the unusual solution of its crowning part: a wide dome with lucarnes (put on a low stepped pediment) supports a slim round tower in the Classical style, "pierced" by tall arches of a belfry. The deep lancet window niches, which reach the low plinth, endow the facade with plastic expressiveness.

In 1860–1890, additions were made to the Church's northern and western sides, and murals were painted. The Church's iconostasis dates from the second half of the 19th century.

The four-column portico, which used to decorate the Church's main facade, was dismantled in the 1930s, after the Church was shut down.

The Church was reopened in 1947 as a metochion of the Antioch Patriarchate.

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Church of St. Theodore Stratelates

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