Address: 109012 Moscow, Nikolsky per., 9a, p. 1
Phone: (495) 606-62-45
Working hours
The temple is open during services.
Driving directions
Metro station "Kitay-gorod" (Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya or Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya lines), exit to the city "to Kitaygorodsky passage, Varvarka street and Staraya square". Near the exit from the metro begins Varvarka street - walk along it to Nikolsky lane, it will be the second on the right side, if you walk from the metro towards the Kremlin. Turn right into Nikolsky lane.
Divine services
On Wednesdays at 8:00 - confession, hours, Divine Liturgy.
Thrones
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (main chapel); Saints Zosima and Savvaty of Solovetsky.
Patronal feasts:
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - September 21 (the main patronal holiday);
Memorial Day of Saints Zosima and Savvaty of Solovetsky - April 30.
History
The Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker "Red Ringing" is located in one of the most ancient historical districts of Moscow - in Kitay-gorod, in Yushkovy proezd (hereinafter Vladimirov's passage, since 1992 Nikolsky lane), which connects Varvarka and Ilyinka streets. The temple has been known from chronicles since the 16th century.
Its name - "Red Ringing" - the temple received from the extraordinary beautiful chime of its bells.
In 1858, the old church and its limits were dismantled and the present temple was built in their place by the merchant Polyakov.
In the 17th century, the church was designated as “what is known by the Red Bell Towers on Posolskaya Street”, which was named after the Posolsky Dvor, a complex of buildings located at the corner with Ilyinka.
The main throne of the Nativity of the Virgin was built in the old church by S.G. Naryshkin not earlier than 1705. Nikolsky side-altar from the south, the north side-altar in the name of Zosim and Savvaty Solovetsky.
At the end of 1922, the temple was seized by the "Free Labor Church" of Fr. Ioannikiy Smirnov and the anarchist poet Alexei Svyatogor “For non-compliance with the contract - the contract with the believers for the Church of St. Nicholas Red Bell in Yushkov Lane near Ilyinka was terminated. The temple was handed over to another group of believers who wished to take it ”(1923–1924).
In 1925, the temple was appointed for demolition, but it was only miraculously not demolished. The temple was closed around 1927.
In 1964, the church was renovated. It housed an institution. In 1967, she was released from the institution, the windows were bricked up, the room was concreted and a power station was installed in it. Later, a building was attached to the church from the north, and together with it, it was included in the complex of new buildings of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
By 1990, the domes on the heads were rusted - in places through and through. The crosses remained only on the central dome and the bell tower, on the four side domes - only pins.
By the decision of the Moscow City Council of 25.07.1991, the temple is returned to believers. On December 19, 1996, the temple was consecrated again.
In recent years, repair and restoration work has been carried out in the temple. The interior was re-created, completely destroyed during the hard times. The bell tower ringing tier was put into operation, for which in 2001 7 new bells were purchased, cast in the Urals.
In the central part of the church (throne in the name of the Nativity of the Mother of God) regular services have been resumed. In the chapel of Zosima and Savvaty of Solovetsky, the sacrament of Baptism is performed.
Shrines
The temple icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (XIX century), the revered icon of the Mother of God of Czestochowa, the revered icon of the new martyr of the Russian Hieromartyr Konstantin Bogorodsky.
2. Temple of Saints Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian - in Old Paneh
Patriarchal Compound in Kitay-Gorod, Moscow
Address: 109012, Moscow, Staropansky per., Building 2-4.
Phone: (495) 624-42-82.
Email: [email protected].
The temple of the holy unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian in Starye Panekh is located in Staropansky lane, between Bogoyavlensky lane and Bolshoy Cherkassky lane.
Divine services
Liturgy on Sundays and public holidays. On Fridays at 18-00 a prayer service with akathist to Sts. Cosme and Damian before the cross with the relics of the saints. Detailed schedule on the website.
History
The wooden church of the holy unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian was built in 1462. In 1564 it burned down and a new one was built in stone in its place. It was a two-story square, topped with five chapters. In 1640, the Assumption side-chapel was added to the Church of Cosmas and Damian, which happened to be on the territory of the Patriarchal Choristers' settlement, from the north. Then the church received a second name - the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which is in the Old Singers.
In 1803, the building was rebuilt in the classicist style, receiving a new refectory and bell tower. Its oldest part is the Kosmodamianovskiy temple, on which, before the revolution, Staropanskiy lane was called Kosmodamianovskiy.
In 1926-1927, the temple, overlooking the lane, was restored by the architect D.P. Sukhov. The temple was crowned with a two-hipped roof, the ancient form of the portals and platbands was restored.
Soon the temple was closed, and in 1930 it was deliberately disfigured. All the fruits of the work of the restorer Sukhov were destroyed. Various institutions were housed in the dilapidated building: the GAI ORUD and later commercial firms.
In 1995, the temple was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church and divine services were resumed. Currently, the northern part of the church, facing Staropansky lane, has been restored.
Shrines
An ancient cross with the relics of Saints Cosmas and Damian, preserved by the parishioners of the temple in the days of hard times and returned to the temple after its opening; revered icon of the holy unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian of Rome, standing before the Holy Trinity.
On Bright Week, any Orthodox Christian can climb the bell tower and ring the bells, glorifying the Risen Savior. It turns out that Christians did not have bells immediately, but only in the 7th century. In the very first centuries, when Christianity was persecuted, the bishop himself announced the place and time of the next service after the service. Deacons and special messengers also disseminated information.
By the 6th century, when there was no longer any need to hide, believers began to be summoned by blows into wooden beats or iron, and sometimes copper rivets.
The first bells appeared in Western Europe. Their "invention" is attributed to Saint Pauline, Bishop of Nolan, who died in 411. According to legend, Peacock once saw in a dream field bells, making incredibly pleasant sounds. After sleeping, the bishop asked to cast these flowers from metal, which turned out to be the first bells. But then it did not come to using them for liturgical purposes. Only in the 7th century, under the Pope Savinian, Christians began to use bell ringing to gather people for common prayer. Over the next two centuries, bells became firmly established in liturgical practice.
In the Greek Church, bells began to be used from the second half of the 9th century, but, oddly enough, they did not enter into widespread use. Bells appeared in Russia at the end of the 10th century. At first they were small, and at each church there were only 2-3 of them. But when in the 15th century their own factories appeared, bells in Russia began to be made large. And to this day in Moscow, on the Ivan the Great bell tower, the world's largest bell "Uspensky" or "Festive", weighing 4000 poods, rings. A blow to it gave rise to the solemn ringing of all Moscow churches on the Bright Easter Night.
We can try ourselves in the role of bell-ringers on Bright Week. Here are some addresses of churches where this Easter joy will be available to Muscovites.
Where to call on Bright Week
Temple in the name of the holy martyr Seraphim (Chichagov)
Address: Moscow, Butovo railway station, station square.
Directions: from metro station "Annino" - 6 stops by bus no. 249, from metro station "Bulvar Admiral Ushakov" - 6 stops by bus no. 293 or 8 stops by bus no. 629.
Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in Strogino
Address: Stroginsky Boulevard, vl. fourteen.
Directions: metro station "Strogino", 1st carriage from the center, twice to the left.
By car: 66th km of the Moscow Ring Road, exit to the inside of the Moscow Ring Road, to the tram tracks (2nd intersection), right, then left to Stroginsky Boulevard. The temple is located between two subway exits.
Directions: metro station "Oktyabrskoe pole", 1st carriage from the center. Then take any trolleybus in the direction of Marshal Zhukov Ave. to the stop "Institute of Communications" (3 stops). The temple is located directly behind the car wash.
By car: check-in from st. People's Militia, 33 (through the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki district council).
Temple of the All-Merciful Savior in Mitino
Address: Moscow, Pyatnitskoe highway, vl. 5.
Directions: metro “Volokolamskaya”, 1st carriage from the center, cross Novotushinsky passage through an underground passage, then 300 meters to the right.
Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Starye Cheryomushki
Address: st. Shvernik, 17, bldg. 1, p. 1.
Directions: metro station "Akademicheskaya", bus. No. 119 or fixed-route taxi No. 29, No. 403 to the stop. "St. Shvernik "
Address: Nakhimovsky prospect, 8
Address: Bogoyavlensky per., 2/6, p. 4
Directions: metro Ploshchad Revolyutsii, exit: to Red Square, Nikolskaya and Ilyinka streets, the Chamber Musical Theater, shops: GUM, Detsky Mir, Gostiny Dvor. Go up the escalator, get off the metro, and the temple is right in front of you.
Church of St. Nicholas (Nikola the Red Bell)
Address: Moscow, Nikolsky per., 9a, p. 1
Directions: metro "Kitay-gorod", exit to the city at Kitaygorodsky passage, st. Varvarka and Old Square. Walk along Varvarka until Nikolsky lane, turn right into Nikolsky lane.
On April 27 at 12 o'clock the bell ringing festival "Chime" will open. This festival has been held annually since 1999 on the first Sunday after Easter (Antipascha) and attracts about 300 bell ringers and several thousand listeners. Whole families with children come here. Everyone can take part in outdoor workshops and try themselves in the role of a real bell ringer.
Address: st. Vostochnaya, 6
Directions: metro station "Avtozavodskaya", the last carriage from the center, in the passage - to the left, up the stairs, straight to the park, to the left.
Bell ringing concerts performed by Ilya Drozdikhin
April 21 at 12.00. Church of the Resurrection of Christ on Semyonovskaya Address: Izmailovskoye shosse, 2. Directions: metro "Semenovskaya", "Electrozavodskaya"
April 22 at 12.00. Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Khamovniki Address: st. Lev Tolstoy, 2. Directions: metro Park Kultury (circular)
April 26, 11.00. Church of the Deposition of the Robe on Donskoy. Address: yl. Donetskaya, 20/6, c. 1. Directions: m. "Shabolovskaya"
May 9 at 12.00. Temple of Zosima and Savvaty of the Solovetsky miracle workers in Golyanovo. Address: Baikalskaya st., 37A. Directions: metro "Shchelkovskaya"
Patriarchal Compound in Kitay-Gorod, Moscow.
Address: 103012, Moscow, Nikolsky per., 9a, building 1.
Phone: (495) 606-62-45
Working hours
The temple is open during services.
Metro station "Kitay-gorod" (Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya or Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya lines), exit to the city "to Kitaygorodsky passage, Varvarka street and Staraya square". Near the exit from the metro begins Varvarka street - walk along it to Nikolsky lane, it will be the second on the right side, if you walk from the metro towards the Kremlin. Turn right into Nikolsky lane. 
Divine services
Fridays at 9:00 - Matins, Divine Liturgy.
Thrones
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (main chapel); Saints Zosima and Savvaty of Solovetsky.
Patronal feasts:
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - September 21 (the main patronal holiday);
Memorial Day of Saints Zosima and Savvaty of Solovetsky - April 30.
History
The Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker "Red Ringing" is located in one of the most ancient historical districts of Moscow - in Kitay-gorod, in Yushkovy proezd (hereinafter Vladimirov's passage, since 1992 Nikolsky lane), which connects Varvarka and Ilyinka streets. The temple has been known from chronicles since the 16th century.
Its name - "Red Ringing" - the temple received from the extraordinary beautiful chime of its bells.
In 1858, the old church and its limits were dismantled and the present temple was built in their place by the merchant Polyakov.
In the 17th century, the church was designated as “what is known by the Red Bell Towers on Posolskaya Street”, which was named after the Posolsky Dvor, a complex of buildings located at the corner with Ilyinka.
The main throne of the Nativity of the Virgin was built in the old church by S.G. Naryshkin not earlier than 1705. Nikolsky side-altar from the south, the north side-altar in the name of Zosim and Savvaty Solovetsky.
At the end of 1922, the temple was seized by the "Free Labor Church" of Fr. Ioannikiy Smirnov and the anarchist poet Alexei Svyatogor “For non-compliance with the contract - the contract with the believers for the Church of St. Nicholas Red Bell in Yushkov Lane near Ilyinka was terminated. The temple was handed over to another group of believers who wished to take it ”(1923–1924).
In 1925, the temple was appointed for demolition, but it was only miraculously not demolished. The temple was closed around 1927.
In 1964, the church was renovated. It housed an institution. In 1967, she was released from the institution, the windows were bricked up, the room was concreted and a power station was installed in it. Later, a building was attached to the church from the north, and together with it, it was included in the complex of new buildings of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
By 1990, the domes on the heads were rusted - in places through and through. The crosses remained only on the central dome and the bell tower, on the four side domes - only pins.
By the decision of the Moscow City Council of 25.07.1991, the temple is returned to believers. On December 19, 1996, the temple was consecrated again.
In recent years, repair and restoration work has been carried out in the temple. The interior was re-created, completely destroyed during the hard times. The bell tower ringing tier was put into operation, for which in 2001 7 new bells were purchased, cast in the Urals.
In the central part of the church (throne in the name of the Nativity of the Mother of God) regular services have been resumed. In the chapel of Zosima and Savvaty of Solovetsky, the sacrament of Baptism is performed.
Shrines
The temple icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (XIX century), the revered icon of the Mother of God of Czestochowa, the revered icon of the new martyr of the Russian Hieromartyr Konstantin Bogorodsky.
The nickname of this church is unique for Moscow: nowhere else is the name "Red Bell" found. These words are all that today reminds of one of the most beautiful bells ringing in Moscow.
As a rule, the original buildings of the temples were built of wood, and then they were already erected in stone. In the case of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker "Red Bell", first mentioned in 1561, it was immediately about a stone building, which is rare for Moscow. The merchant Grigory Tverdikov was the creator of the temple. Already in the 16th century, the name "Nikola Red Ringing" appeared, denoting the special beauty of the church bell ringing. In the future, its bell selection continued to replenish. So, in the middle of the 17th century, a bell of 1573 with foreign inscriptions and the image of three lilies was presented to the church - a trophy in the Russian-Polish war for Ukraine. The attention of the authorities to the St. Nicholas Church is also evidenced by the transfer to it in the same years of the iconostasis, created by Ukrainian masters, and icons by the famous icon painter Simon Ushakov.
The image of the old St. Nicholas Church has survived: a stone quadruple covered with an eight-pitched roof with one dome, walls with slit windows, a powerful octahedral bell tower adjoins from the west. Despite its antiquity, in 1858 this building was demolished for the construction of a new church. The funds for the work were allocated by the merchant Polyakov, the project of the church and its interiors was developed by architects A.M. Shestakov and N.I. Kozlovsky. The temple was built in the pseudo-Russian style, which did not flourish in the 1850s. Therefore, its facades are decorated very modestly, the lower part of the building is completely smoothly plastered, marked with only three arches along the street facade. But an octahedral hipped-roof bell tower with two rows of rumor windows, placed above the entrance from the west, and five onion domes with drums decorated with three rows of small kokoshniks are all features of the pseudo-Russian style.
In 1927, services in the St. Nicholas Church ceased. Recognized as "of little value", it was scheduled for demolition, but survived. The interior decoration was completely lost. Only the bell of 1573, brought from Poland, was preserved and transferred to the museum in Kolomenskoye. The space of the temple turned out to be divided into several floors, and various state institutions were located in it. In the 1960s, an electrical substation was installed inside.
Later, the church was surrounded on several sides by a new complex of buildings of the Central Committee of the CPSU, to which the building of the temple was also attributed. Since 1991, the process of transferring the church to the community of believers began, but regular services were organized only in 1996. For many years, the domes remained rusted, there were cracks in the walls, and the crosses completed only the bell tower and the central dome. However, restoration work is gradually returning the temple to its historical appearance. Today the four side chapters are again crowned with crosses.
The Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker "Red Ringing" is located in one of the most ancient historical districts of Moscow - in Kitay-gorod, in Yushkovy proezd (hereinafter Vladimirov's passage, since 1992 Nikolsky lane), which connects Varvarka and Ilyinka streets. The temple has been known from chronicles since the 16th century.
Its name - "Red Ringing" - the temple received from the extraordinary beautiful ringing of its bells. On the bell tower there was a bell of 1573 (or 1473) with an inscription in a foreign language, after the church was closed in 1927, it was transferred to the museum of the village of Kolomenskoye.
The church has been known as a stone church since 1561. It was built by the merchant Grigory Tverdikov. There is a legend that the temple was founded by Saint Philip the Metropolitan of Moscow in memory of the days he spent in the Solovetsky monastery. In 1625, the church was also listed as stone.
In the fire of 1626 it burned down and was renovated.
In 1691 it was renewed again, but nevertheless it continued to preserve the character of the building of the 16th century. The consecration of the temple in 1691 was carried out by the last Patriarch of the pre-synodal period, Adrian.
On the bell tower there was a bell with the image of three lilies and the letters "ET" marked in 1575 and an illegible inscription - apparently, it was one of the "captive" bells taken under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich during the war against Poland for Little Russia and White Russia.
Many historical sources mention the existence of an old family cemetery behind the altar of the temple. Among the graves of noble parishioners and investors in the church was buried the head of the quartered rebellious boyar A.P. Sokovnin, who was executed on charges of attempted assassination of Peter the Great.
In 1858, the old church and its limits were dismantled and the present temple was built in their place by the merchant Polyakov.
In the 17th century, the church was designated as “what is known by the Red Bell Towers on Posolskaya Street”, which was named after the Posolsky Dvor, a complex of buildings located at the corner with Ilyinka.
The architect of the church is not known exactly. It could have been either A. M. Shestakov, who made estimates for the construction, or N. I. Kozlovsky, who reliably belonged to the project of the iconostasis.
The church was built in the spirit of eclecticism, oriented in the interpretation of some elements to examples of ancient Russian architecture, the church is crowned with a large, widely spaced five-domed on drums decorated with kokoshniks. The bell tower is completed with a tent. The slender vertical of the bell tower once played a significant role in the panorama of Kitai-Gorod.
The main throne of the Nativity of the Virgin was built in the old church by S.G. Naryshkin not earlier than 1705. Nikolsky side-altar from the south, the north side-altar in the name of Zosim and Savvaty.
During the census of the property of the church in 1663, among others, the carved gilded iconostasis of Kiev work and the icon of Hodegetria by Simon Ushakov were named.
At the end of 1922, the temple was seized by the "Free Labor Church" of Fr. Ioannikiy Smirnov and the anarchist poet Alexei Svyatogor “For non-compliance with the contract - the contract with the believers for the church of St. Nicholas Red Bell in Yushkov Lane near Ilyinka was terminated. The temple was handed over to another group of believers who wished to take it ”(1923–1924).
In 1925, the temple was appointed for demolition, but only miraculously not demolished. The temple was closed around 1927.
In 1964, the church was renovated. It housed an institution. In 1967, she was released from the institution, the windows were bricked up, the room was concreted and a power station was installed in it. Later, a building was attached to the church from the north, and together with it, it was included in the complex of new buildings of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
By 1990, the domes on the heads were rusted - in places through and through. The crosses remained only on the central dome and the bell tower, on the four side domes - only pins. The temple is not under state protection - it is also absent from the list of monuments. It is included only in the list of objects proposed for state protection in Moscow, dated “1681–1691, 1846, late XIX – XX centuries.” By the decision of the Moscow City Council of 25.07.1991, the temple is returned to believers. On December 19, 1996, the temple was consecrated again.
In recent years, repair and restoration work has been carried out in the temple. The interior was re-created, completely destroyed during the hard times. The bell tower ringing tier was put into operation, for which in 2001 7 new bells were purchased, cast in the Urals.
In the central part of the church (throne in the name of the Nativity of the Mother of God) regular services have been resumed. In the chapel of Zosima and Savvaty of Solovetsky, the sacrament of Baptism is performed.
In 2001-2003. for the church were painted icons of the Mother of God of Czestochowa (she is prayed exclusively for the salvation of Russia at the present time), icons of royal martyrs, new martyrs of Russia - Seraphim Chichagov and Constantine Bogorodsky, holy righteous Anna. The shrine of the temple - the Icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker - is the only icon that has come down from pre-revolutionary times.