Church of the Resurrection of the Word on Uspensky Vrazhka description and photos - Russia - Moscow: Moscow (Topic)

Church of the Resurrection of the Word on Uspensky Vrazhka description and photo - Russia - Moscow: Moscow. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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Before the 1917 revolution in Moscow, there were three dozen thrones consecrated in honor of the Resurrection of the Word. One of these temples is located in the historical center of the capital, on the Uspensky Vrazhka. This church was not closed during the years of Soviet power - as if the artists living in the vicinity asked the authorities not to close the church. Under the Soviets, the church lost its bells, but acquired the icon "Seeking the Lost", which was transferred to the church on the Dormition Vrazhka in the 30s from the Church of the Nativity of Christ in Palashi. The poet Marina Tsvetaeva and Sergei Efron were married in front of this icon in 1912.

The name of the area in which the church was built also comes from the name of the temple: next to the ravine in the 16th century there was a temple of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos. The first wooden church on the site of the Church of the Resurrection of Slovushche was built in the middle of the 16th century. This structure burned down in a fire in April 1629, but after five years the temple was revived in stone and has survived in this form to this day. Only in the 19th century, after the French invasion, a bell tower and a refectory were added to the church. It is also believed that at that time the throne of the neighboring Eliseevsky temple, destroyed by the fire of 1812, was transferred to the Church of the Resurrection of the Word, and the Pokrovsky side-altar of the church was rededicated as the Eliseevsky side.

In the twentieth century, restoration work in the temple was carried out several times - in the 60s, late 70s and 80s. In addition to the icon "Seeking the Lost", painted in the 18th century, the most revered shrine of the church is the image of St. Spyridon of Trimyphus. and one more side-altar of the temple is named after Nicholas the Wonderworker. Since the church was not closed during the Soviet period, it also contained other relics brought from closed and destroyed churches.

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