In the Moscow suburb, located behind the Tverskaya Gate, a wooden church was built in the 16th century. Previously, the place was called Putinki. Now it is the area of Strastnoy Boulevard and Pushkin Square. The temple was given the name of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos. The stone church was completed around 1676. At the same time, a refectory was being built, and in 1690 a chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas was erected. Towards the end of the 18th century, a bell tower was added.
History of the Assumption Church
The first mention of Putinki dates back to the XIV century.... According to legend, at that time there were meadows that bore the name of the Great Ones. Two large tracts began there - to Dmitrov and Tver. In the 16th century, one of the country residences of Tsar Vasily III was located in these places. Later it is turned into the Traveling Palace to stop foreign ambassadors.
Presumably the name Putinki is a derivative of the word path. The fact is that it was necessary to get to the palace by putinks, that is, curved alleys and streets.
For the first time in the chronicles, a church built of wood is mentioned in 1621. It was named the Church of the Assumption at the old Ambassadorial courtyard, the second name is the Church on Dmitrovka outside the city. In those days, she was famous for the icon depicting the Assumption of the Virgin, exuding myrrh.
Construction of a stone temple
By the end of the 17th century, the wooden church was either dismantled, or it burned down on its own. There is no exact documentary information in this regard. ... Under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in 1676 a stone church is being built on the site where a wooden church used to stand. In the 17th century, in the 90s, the first mention of the construction of a chapel in honor of Nicholas the Wonderworker on the northern side of the temple appears.
The new side-chapel was made in the Moscow Baroque style. The dome of the main tower of the temple was made in the shape of an apple. This was a rather rare occurrence; there were only two such domes in Moscow. In the second half of the 18th century, a bell tower was erected.
The Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God gave its name to the lane on which it was located. They named him Ouspensky. Later it was renamed to Proyezhy. Towards the end of the 18th century, the buildings of the temple's possessions were mainly formed.
Buildings were erected on the churchyard, which are located:
- Priest.
- Deacon.
- Sexton.
- Women baking cereals.
Shrines of the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God
In the temple in Putinki there are shrines revered by the parishioners. There are quite a few icons in the small church.
Among them are icons depicting:
Especially revered icon from Constantinople
Faces especially revered by Christians include icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople... One of her copies (copies) is in the Assumption Church in Putinki. A legend has survived about this icon, which says that in ancient times two Greek monks from Constantinople were passing through Staraya Russa. There they served the Divine Liturgy in the cathedral church.
In memory of their stay, the monks left in this church a small icon of the Mother of God, which was engraved on a slate board. This miniature face soon became famous for its miracles. After that, lists were made from it, which are kept to this day in various churches in Russia, including the Church of the Assumption in Putinki.
Repair and destruction of the Assumption Church
In 1898 the temple was donated by an unknown benefactor, a large sum for that time - 6 thousand rubles. With this money, the building was repaired and the icons were restored. The iconostasis was re-covered with gold leaf, and the walls were decorated with paintings.
In 1922, the church was closed, later it was partially destroyed and plundered. 34 spools (145 g) of gold, 6 pounds and 5 pounds (100 kg) of silver and precious objects disappear from it.
The domes of the temple and the bell tower were destroyed, and the entrance to it was bricked up. They also destroyed the apses - buildings adjacent to the main part of the building. In their place, the door and windows were broken. After the desecration and closure of the church, the building was used as a residential building for many years.
Shrinking the territory and returning to the bosom of the church
Over time, the building was surrounded by annexes, which radically changed the once three-dimensional composition of the cathedral. The territory of the temple domain was greatly reduced. They seized the north-western part of the territory, on which a three-story house was built in 1927. Currently, it houses the Embassy of the African Republic of Benin.
In the second half of the twentieth century, the dwelling house was resettled. A sewing workshop was located there. In 1990, the temple was transferred to the fold of the Russian Orthodox Church. After that, its restoration began. In 1991, divine services were resumed here.
Schedule of services
Temple in Putinki
The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in Putinki is located in Moscow, in Uspensky lane, at house number 4. The church is open for visiting every day from 10-00 to 19-00, as well as during services.
Information about the schedule of services in the Assumption Church as follows:
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki
This church, located in Putinki, is truly unique. It is the only three-tent temple building on the territory of Moscow, the appearance of which has survived to our time. In 1648, the wooden temple was destroyed by fire, but a new one was erected from stone on the site of the previous structure, following its model. Its uniqueness lies in its lack of facades, that is, from any point of view, it does not have a uniformly pronounced facade due to non-standard architectural solutions that were used during construction. The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin is a historical architectural monument, but at the same time the temple is active and services are performed in it.
Service Schedule:
- On weekdays, morning services begin at 7-30.
- On Saturday, Sunday, as well as on holidays, the Divine Liturgy is held from 9:00.
- The beginning of the All-night Vigil is at 18:00.
Cathedral of the Assumption of the Mother of God in Moscow
Another Temple of the Assumption of the Virgin in the capital located on the territory of the Kremlin, on the square called Cathedral. It belongs to the historical and cultural museum-reserve "Moscow Kremlin". The church was built in 1475-1479. The development of the project was entrusted to the famous Italian architect Aristotle Fioravanti.
This temple was the main cathedral of the Russian Empire until the abolition of the monarchy in 1917. The Church of the Assumption is the oldest building in Moscow, completely preserved. The remains of all the patriarchs of Moscow of the first patriarchal period, with the exception of Ignatius and Nikon, rest in the cathedral.
The first metropolitan temple made of stone
The first temple of stone on this place it was erected at the beginning of the XIV century, during the reign of Prince Ivan I Kalita. In the August days of 1326, in the place where the previous wooden cathedral stood, a new white-stone Assumption Church was laid. It was consecrated in 1327.
The Assumption Church was the first built of stone in Moscow. Archaeological research shows that it was a one-domed temple, supported by four pillars, with triple apses. It was built in the image of the St. George Cathedral, located in the city of Yuryev-Polsky.
The church was erected in the architectural style characteristic of the XIV century. The masonry consisted of squares of rough white stone. It was combined with smoothly sanded decorative architectural elements. The facade of the church was crowned with kokoshniks, and the central tower was crowned with a dome.
Moscow Assumption Cathedral in the 15th century
During the reign of Ivan III the Great The Moscow state was gaining strength. The Assumption Cathedral ceased to correspond to the status of the cathedral. The annals mention that it was badly dilapidated, and they stopped repairing it. Most likely, a decision has already been made to demolish the old and build a new stone church.
The construction of a new church, the largest in size for those years, was entrusted to the Russian architects Myshkin and Krivtsov. At the end of April 1471, the first stone was laid. However, the construction could not be completed, since an earthquake occurred in Moscow on May 20, 1474, and the cathedral collapsed.
After that, Ivan III invites the Italian architect Aristotle Fioravanti, who completely dismantles what remains of the destroyed temple. At this place, under his leadership, a building is being built on the model of the Assumption Cathedral, located in Vladimir. The Assumption Church is now located on the Kremlin Square. The cathedral was consecrated in August 1479; the ceremony was conducted by Metropolitan Gerontius.
Laconic architecture
The temple has a laconic and monolithic appearance... The unity of the building is emphasized by the uniform division of the facades by means of vertical flat ledges. Smooth walls are crowned with narrow arkature windows. This is the name of the rows of decorative false arches on the facade. The apses (lowered protrusions of the building adjacent to the main structure) are not very high. From the north and south, they are covered with pylons. The pylons are a tower-like structure in the shape of a truncated pyramid.
The cathedral is decorated with five large towers topped with massive domes. Aristotle Fioravanti managed to cope with the most difficult task. He increased the internal volume of the cathedral, which Myshkin and Krivtsov failed to do. For the first time in the temple architecture of Russia, the Italian used cross vaults with a thickness of 1 brick, as well as metal aperture and in-wall connections. In fact, he applied reinforcement.
The main idea of the Italian architect
But the main engineering and architectural idea of the Italian master was that he built additional arches behind the iconostasis... Thanks to this, the eastern halls, united by the passageways of the cathedral, in fact became a monolith. Additional arches took on a significant share of the load from the cathedral's colossal towers.
This technique made it possible to build relatively thin round pillars in the western and central parts of the temple. This gave a sense of the unusual lightness of the large structure and its integrity with the main part of the naos. Naos is the central place in the temple where the parishioners are held during worship.
Moscow church in the 15th - 16th centuries
Period from 1482 to 1515... At this time, the original painting of the cathedral was completed. The famous Moscow icon painter and fresco master Dionisy took part in the painting of the church. Later, the church was decorated anew, but some fragments of the original painting are preserved. They are the most ancient examples of fresco painting in Russia on the territory of the Kremlin, which have survived to this day.
1574 year... The Assumption Cathedral suffered from numerous fires, which happened at that time quite often, but it was constantly restored and updated. After a strong fire that happened in 1574, Ivan I. V. the Terrible issued a decree on covering the top of the cathedral with gilded copper sheets. The relics of Metropolitan Peter, kept in the church, were moved from a silver reliquary to a gold one. In the same year, the wedding ceremony for the kingdom of Ivan the Terrible, the first in the history of the temple, takes place in the cathedral.
Assumption Cathedral in the 17th century
The most significant events for the temple in the 17th century were the following:
- In 1613, the Zemsky Sobor was held here, at which Mikhail Fedorovich, the first of the Romanov dynasty, was elected tsar.
- In 1624, the vaults of the church were worn out and threatened with collapse. To avoid this, they were disassembled and re-folded according to the modified drawing, applying additional reinforcement. And also erected additional supporting arches, which increased the strength of the structure.
- In 1625, the Robe of the Lord, presented to Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich by the Shah of Persia Abbas I, was transferred to the Assumption Cathedral.
Events of the 18th - 20th centuries associated with the Assumption Church
A brief chronicle of the events of this time is as follows:
Currently, the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary works as a museum. It can be visited on any day except Thursday, from 10:00 to 18:00.
While in Moscow, it is worth visiting such architectural gems of the architecture of ancient Russia as the churches dedicated to the Nativity and the Dormition of the Mother of God.
Photo: Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki
Photo and description
The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki on Malaya Dmitrovka was built in 1649-52. at the place where two paths diverged - to Dmitrov and to Tver. There was also a Traveling Yard for ambassadors and messengers, to which "putinks" led - crooked streets and lanes.
There used to be a wooden church on this site, but it burned down in 1648. The stone church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki was built with funds allocated by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. The church is one of the best examples of Moscow hipped roof architecture of the 17th century.
During the construction of the church, the first in Russia side-chapel of the icon of the Mother of God "Burning Bush" was built, protecting from fires.
This temple is the last monument of hipped roof architecture in Russia due to the prohibition of the construction of hipped roof churches by Patriarch Nikon. Later, a refectory with a chapel of Fyodor Tiron was added to the temple.
The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin is crowned with three slender tents, set in a row and oriented from south to north. Above the chapel of the "Burning Bush" there is a small tent on a light drum with three tiers of kokoshniks.
It must be said that the tents of the 17th century, as a rule, are of a purely decorative nature - they are just superstructures over the roofs, they do not communicate with the inner space of the temple. The bell tower, which dominates the entire structure, unites this whimsical group of tents into a beautiful ensemble.
The walls of the temple are made of special molded bricks in the style of "Russian pattern", which was often found in Russian architecture of the 17th century. Fragments of 17th century wall paintings have been preserved inside the church.
In 1939, the temple was closed, a warehouse was arranged in it, and by 1950 the building was badly dilapidated. In 1959-60. a comprehensive restoration was carried out and the temple was returned to its original appearance of the 17th century. Since 1991, divine services have been resumed in the temple.
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki was built at the turn of the 40-50-ies of the XVII century. The name of the architect who created the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki remains a mystery. However, it is known that the present temple was built on the site of an earlier one, which died in a fire. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich contributed to the fact that the shrine rose from the ashes. The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki became the first Russian temple, one of the thrones of which was consecrated in honor.
History of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
It was a wooden three-hipped church, consecrated in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. It was called differently: the church on the Old Embassy yard, the church behind the Tverskaya gate, the church on the land of the New Sloboda ... Alas, her life was also short-lived - she died in a fire in 1648.
Sasha Mitrahovic 01.03.2017 17:34
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki is a relatively small parish church. The height of the building from the base to the cross is 30 meters, the height of the main room is slightly more and more meters. The distance between Solei and the western wall is only three meters. The area allotted to the parishioners is approximately 40 square meters. The walls are made of bricks and white stone, the floor is laid with modern stone slabs.
The Nativity of the Mother of God Church in Putinki is unusual, it cannot be confused with any other church. It is difficult to find a flat surface on its walls - its composition is so complex, its decor is so varied and rich.
The main volume of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki is not striking in its large size. In shape, it resembles a strongly elongated rectangle, topped with three tents on the outside, standing on deaf drums. From the east, low apses adjoin the temple, from the west there is a rather spacious and not very high refectory. On the south side there is a chapel in the name of
chenic Theodore Tyrone. On the north side there is a chapel with a decorative tent on a light drum. A tent-roofed bell tower rises between it and the northern wall of the temple.
The décor is unusually varied. So, at the end of the platbands, triangular and semicircular pediments are used. In the front part of the chapel of the icon of the Mother of God "The Burning Bush" of the six columns of the upper tier, four differ from the lower ones. The horizontal thrust seems to divide the building into two halves. When viewed from the side it seems that the temple is two-story.
Among the architectural "relatives" of the Nativity of the Mother of God Church, in addition to the capital's Trinity Church in Nikitniki, the Moscow Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in Medvedkovo, the Church of St. Nicholas of Mirlikisky in Khamovniki, and the Yaroslavl Church of Elijah the Prophet can be named.
Sasha Mitrahovic 02.03.2017 09:13
The interior of the Nativity of the Mother of God Church looks rather modest. The former iconostasis in the Soviet years, when the church was used for other purposes, was lost. However, some of the interior details were preserved.
The walls of the temple are lined with special molded bricks in the style of "Russian pattern". They are painted white. It is not at all a fact that initially it was so, but Soviet restorers of the mid-20th century decided that the interiors of the 17th century church should be painted white. Inside the temple there are small fragments of 17th century wall paintings, but most of the murals were carried out already in the 1990s.
The central column erected at the turn of the 17th-18th centuries has survived to this day. On the west side it is depicted, on the north - Saint Panteleimon, on the south - and on the east -.
The entrance to the chapel is on the left. The chapel of the Martyr Theodore Tyrone is on the right.
Galleries and a vestibule, which are quite traditional for Russian temple architecture, are absent here. In fact, the central zone was also removed, which is even less common. At the same time, such a construction is aimed at preserving as much as possible the "intimacy" of communication with God. Barely entering the temple, the parishioner approaches the salt and the altar. The height of the main room is a little over and meters. You can see the vault only in the chapel of the icon of the Mother of God "Burning Bush", where services are rarely performed.
The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki, in the old Ambassadorial courtyard, was founded in 1649. and finished in 1652. The construction of a new stone building of the temple began after a fire that destroyed the previous wooden church of the Nativity of the Virgin. A wooden three-hipped temple was built in Putinki in 1625. Sloboda got its name from the ancient routes to and Dmitrov, diverging from here, from the Tverskiye gates of Moscow. There is also an assumption that the word "Putinki" was formed from the "Web" - a tight and whimsical interweaving of narrow alleys at the Tverskaya Gate. Behind the temple there was a traveling Ambassadorial yard, and around - the courtyards of people from Dmitrovskaya Sloboda (present-day Bolshaya Dmitrovskaya Street), from which the rapidly growing Malaya Dmitrovskaya Sloboda was named.
After the fire of the wooden church, a magnificent three-tent stone church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos was built here, for which a very large sum of 800 rubles was allocated from the sovereign's treasury at that time and a brick was sent for construction. The funds were allocated gradually: first, at the request of the parishioners and the petition of the Jerusalem Patriarch Paisiy, 300 rubles were given from the treasury, then, when there was not enough money, an even larger amount was added - 400 rubles, and finally, at the end of the work, another 100 rubles were released. The rest of the funds were collected by the parishioners.
The construction of the new church was carried out, as was the case with many ancient Russian churches, not according to engineering drawings, but according to drawings, which made the composition of the building very dynamic and picturesque. The most noticeable feature is the small decorative tents, crowning the main volume, and the chapel of the temple, and its bell tower. Initially, only the main volume with three tents was built - a small rectangular building with a small refectory, the northern aisle of the Icon of the Mother of God "Burning Bush" (also crowned with a tent) and a hipped bell tower. Unusually, in the composition of the temple, the building is designed to be viewed from all four sides; even the apses are practically hidden in the rectangle and hardly protrude outward. The decoration of all parts of the temple is unusually beautiful - from the tents to the lower windows. The most noticeable part - the tents - are unlike one another, the builders showed a rich imagination and ingenuity in their decor. Small tents are placed on slender ornate drums and are crowned with onion domes on smaller drums. The bases of all the tents and drums on which they rest are surrounded by rows of kokoshniks, which have a similar shape to each other. The drums themselves of the main volume are surrounded by an arcature with pointed ends. Small drums under the domes are also surrounded by kokoshniks. Along the edge, the main volume is decorated with a number of false zakomaras with keeled ends, and under the zakomaras there is a wide carved frieze. Even more remarkable is the decor of the marquee on the side-altar. Its light drum is narrower than the tent itself, the base of which is, as it were, carried out beyond the drum, cut, moreover, by narrow high windows, and under the drum there is a "fiery" hill of kokoshniks in three tiers.
The beautiful octahedral bell tower with carved openings of the ringing tier seems even lighter and more delicate thanks to a series of “rumors” holes in the tent. On the bell tower, among the bells, there was one made by the famous master Ivan Motorin in 1715.
On all facades of the temple it is almost impossible to find a flat surface - so it is adorned with various carvings and stone lace.
After the completion of the construction of the temple, in 1653, Patriarch Nikon issued a ban on the construction of tent-roofed temples in Russia. Thus, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki turned out to be the last tent-roofed stone church in Moscow.
Attached at the end of the 17th century, the wide refectory with the chapel of Theodore Tiron is decorated more modestly, in the Baroque style, rather than ornamental. At the same time, a gatehouse was built with a passage to the bell tower. In 1864. built a new western porch with a tent on a narrow drum, similar in appearance to the rest of the tents. This porch was demolished during the 1957 restoration. and replaced by a new one, stylized as the 17th century. Fragments of ancient paintings of the 17th century have been preserved inside the temple.
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki, 1881 After the revolution, the temple was not closed immediately, but only in 1935. In the 1930s. the brethren of the Vysokopetrovsky monastery served there. First, after the closure, office premises were set up in it, then the rehearsal hall of the Moscow directorate "Circus on the Stage". In 1990. it was decided to transfer the temple to the faithful. Now the temple has been completely restored, with a Sunday school open. The slender graceful church building, visible from the very beginning of Malaya Dmitrovka, looks unusually good, although now not from all four sides, as it was originally, and is the best decoration of one of the ancient streets of the historical center of Moscow.
Address: st. M. Dmitrovka, 4
In the historical center of the Russian capital, not far from the famous Lenin Komsomol Theater, there is a beautiful Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is one of the few Moscow churches that have preserved their original appearance until modern times.
Construction history
The history of the temple in Putinki is almost four hundred years old. The modern walls have survived several historical eras unchanged.
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki
Foundation of the temple
At the beginning of the 17th century, a wooden church dedicated to the Nativity of the Mother of God appeared behind the Tverskaya Gates of the White City of Moscow. In the historical chronicles of this time, it is called a church located "at the Embassy yard in Putinki." Experts give several versions of the appearance of this name:
- The church courtyard is located near the traveling guest palace, where European ambassadors and travelers arrived on their way to the capital of the Russian state.
- Behind the gates there were roads leading to various northern cities of Russia, that is, the church was located at a crossroads.
- The third version reflects the features of the urban design of the historical part of the main Russian city, cut through by many streets and alleys that form a kind of giant spider web.
The wooden church, crowned with three tents, burned down in the great Moscow fire of 1648. A year later, the construction of a stone cathedral began in its place, most of the funds for which were allocated from the state treasury. In 1652, the construction of the church was completed. It was consecrated in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Tsarist time
The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, located in Putinki, is the last Russian tent-roofed cult building. A year after its consecration, Patriarch Nikon banned the erection of church buildings in the tent style. The chapel of Theodore Tiron and the refectory, which were added at the end of the 17th century, were decorated in the Baroque style. At the same time, a gatehouse was built, from which the passage led to the bell tower.
The west porch, surmounted by a tent similar in style to the main spiers, was built in 1864. It has not survived in its original form to this day. At the end of the 19th century, the first restoration of the Nativity Church in Putinki was carried out.
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki, 1881
Interesting: believers claim that the church building survived in all shocks and fires thanks to the intercession of the Mother of God. The temple was not damaged during the capture of Moscow by the French, although all the surrounding estates were plundered and burned.
After the Bolshevik revolution, the church was not closed immediately. In the late 1920s, the brethren of the closed Vysoko-Petrovsky monastery settled there. The doors of the house of God were closed for the parishioners in 1939. The office premises were located in the building, and later they were given for the rehearsal room for the management of the "Circus on the Stage". Animal rehearsals took place here.
In the late 1950s, a second restoration was carried out, which affected only the exterior of the building. In particular, the 19th century west porch was dismantled. It was replaced by a tent-roofed building, similar in style to the buildings of the 17th century. This work was recognized as a model of scientific restoration, which made it possible to preserve the ancient unique building in its original form.
Interesting: the church, considered today an architectural monument of federal significance, was wanted to be destroyed in the Soviet years. According to legend, the bombing was scheduled for June 22, 1941. For obvious reasons, the event was canceled. Thus, the war did not allow the Soviet government to make a fatal mistake.
Modernity
The temple was returned to the Orthodox Church in 1990. He received the status of a patriarchal courtyard. Hegumen Seraphim became the first modern rector of the church. After his tragic death, the parish was headed by Archpriest Theodore Batarchukov, who is the rector of the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos in Putinki to this day.
The interior decoration of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki
By the time the building was returned to the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate, the interior decoration was almost completely lost. The church was restored with charitable funds, the collection of which was greatly assisted by the famous actor Alexander Gavriilovich Abdulov.
Architecture and interior decoration
To date, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been fully restored. Its interior and exterior decoration corresponds to the original design of the 17th century. The unique architectural monument of the 17th century is made in the style of Russian ornamental design, a distinctive feature of which is the use of many decorative details.
The central part of the temple is a quadrangle stretched from south to north, crowned with three tents that perform a decorative function. The same tents are used to decorate the northern side-altar dedicated to the Burning Bush icon, the patterned bell tower and the western porch. The walls of the church are decorated on the outside with numerous decorative details. The decoration of the later extensions to the building is somewhat different from its main part. It is made in the style of the early Moscow baroque.
The interior design of the church has practically not survived in Soviet times. The only authentic element is the painting of the central column, depicting revered Orthodox saints. The walls of the temple are decorated with new and restored icons and paintings.
The interior of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki
Among the shrines located in the temple, the following images are distinguished:
- the icon of the Mother of God "The Tsaritsa", helps cancer patients;
- the icon of the Mother of God "Burning Bush", which protects against fires.
Temple opening hours
The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin is located in Moscow at the address: Malaya Dmitrovka street, possession 4. Its doors are open every day from eight in the morning until eight in the evening. Services are held on weekends and holidays at 9 am and 5 pm. Orthodox rituals are held in the church, there is a Sunday school, and Orthodox doctors are receiving visits. In addition, the ministers of the temple provide support to disadvantaged children, orphans and prisoners.
Advice: few people visit the church on weekdays, so the sightseeing trip should be planned on weekdays. This will allow you to calmly enjoy the interior decoration of the temple, to feel its spirituality.
How to get there
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is located in the historical part of Moscow. You can get to it by ground transport and by metro.
By metro you need to get to the stations of the following metro:
- Tverskaya (green line);
- Pushkinskaya (blue line);
- Chekhovskaya (gray line).
When you reach the Pushkinskiy cinema, you must turn left. In a few minutes a beautiful white building will appear.
The ground transport stop "Pushkinskaya Ploshchad" can be reached by buses N1 and A. There is a Christmas church within a two-minute walk from it.
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki is a beautiful monument of Russian architecture, which is a vivid example of the hipped roof style that dominated Russian architecture until the end of the 17th century. It will be interesting not only for true believing Orthodox people, but also for lovers of Russian history.
Temple in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki