Moscow Oblast · Russia · Balashikha
The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Poltevo is the oldest in Balashikha Archdeaconry.
The village of Poltevo has been known since the 16th century; at that time, it was called Sushchevo or Agafonovo.
After the Polish-Lithuanian intervention of the early 17th century, the hamlet of Sushchevo was granted by the tsar to one of his gen...
Russia · Moscow
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 th...
Russia · Moscow
In the early 17th century, there was a shelter for the poor located near the road passing along the left bank of the Neglinnaya River. Near the shelter, there was the wooden Church of St. Nicholas. In 1657, the wooden church was reconstructed in stone.
Later, in 1677, when the settlement was inhabited by bell ringers from Ivan the Great Bell Tow...
Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
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Moscow Oblast · Russia · Kolomna
The Church of St. Nicholas the Merchants' Saint is one of Kolomna Kremlin's oldest architectural monuments. In 1501, to mark the day of Amos the Prophet, the Church was covered with stone.
The Church's name comes from the fact that it was built using the funds of large merchants (in particular, the funds of Vasily Yuryev, a very rich merchant). ...
Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
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Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
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