Russia · Moscow
The Church was built from 1686 to 1689 (the high altar is dedicated to the Life-Giving Trinity) in a settlement of fur dressers (Russian: "kozhevniki") instead of a wooden church of the same name (known since 1625).
Several years later, a refectory with side chapels dedicated to SS. Cyrus and John and St. Paraskevi the Great Martyr was construct...
Russia · Moscow
A stone church in a settlement of silversmiths has been known since 1657. From 1764 to 1768, an owner of the neighbouring estate Athanasiy Goncharov built a bell tower with a church of St. John the Baptist in its lower tier to the west of the above mentioned church.
The main church was rebuilt in 1781 with contribution from T. Surovshchinskaya. ...
Russia · Moscow
The first church, situated there, was first mentioned in 1644. However, it is not known exactly when it was founded, most likely even earlier. Vorobyovo Village itself has been known since 1453.
The now existing classical church was built from 1811 to 1813. Its interior and furnishings date back to the construction period.
The high altar is d...
Moscow Oblast · Russia · Kolomna
The Church of the Nativity, as one of many other Posad churches, was founded at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. Major Durnovo, Kolomna governor, reported in 1786: "The Church of the Nativity of Christ was built in 1725 with support from Kolomna merchants Ivan Ivanovich Ushakov and Vasili Fyodorovich Vetoshnikov. It has two heated side chap...
Volga River · Russia · Kashin
Patrol men wrote about the Church of the Nativity as early as 1621, "There is a church in Rozhdestvenskaya gorka Sloboda (settlement), owned by Ivan Semyonov Sergievsky..." Later the settlement was confiscated from the landowner and handed over to Kashinsky posad, including the Church.
In 1774 to 1786, the wooden building was reconstructed in st...
Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
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