Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker on Shchepakh description and photos - Russia - Moscow: Moscow (Topic)

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"Nicholas on the Shchepakh" was the name of the temple, which stood from the middle of the 17th century next to the royal wood-burning (or wood-chips) courtyard, where log buildings were made for future sovereign buildings.

The first church, consecrated in the name of Nicholas of Mirliki, was cut down in 1649. Nothing has survived from that building, which burned down in one of the Moscow fires, and in the second half of the century the temple was restored in stone form. About a hundred years later, a side-altar was arranged near the church in honor of Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess, which, after another hundred years, in the second half of the 19th century, was moved to a building built specially for him.

Burnt down during the Patriotic War. war of 1812, the Church of St. Nicholas on Shchepy was restored with donations, and the next year a new bell tower was built. Soon there was also a chapel in honor of Saints Peter and Paul, and at the end of the same century - another one, in the northern part of the temple.

In the 30s of the last century, the church was closed, the crosses were demolished near the building and chapters, all valuables are taken out. During the Great Patriotic War, the former building of the temple, rebuilt from the inside, housed workshops in which shells were fired for the front. After the war, the building housed an enterprise that produced cups and medals. It was located within the walls of the temple until the very transfer of the building to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1993. The restoration works of the building were carried out until 2002. Nine new bells were installed in the renovated belfry, and by 2008 the iconostasis was completed.

The name of the temple gave rise to the names of three Nikoloshchepovsky lanes. True, one of them, the Third, in the 50s of the twentieth century changed its name and became Shlomin's passage.

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