Church of Maxim the Confessor on Varvarka description and photo - Russia - Moscow: Moscow (Topic)

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The Church of Maxim the Confessor (also called the Church of Maxim the Blessed) is located in the historic center of Moscow - in Kitay-gorod, on Varvarka.

The person whose name she is wears, lived in Moscow in the first half of the 15th century and was an urban holy fool. In 1434 he was buried here, on Varvarka, and about a hundred years later he was canonized. At the place of his burial, cases of miraculous healings began to be noted.

The stone church, the main throne of which was consecrated in honor of Maxim the Blessed, was built at the end of the 17th century. Before that, the temple was wooden and was named in honor of the holy princes, brothers Boris and Gleb. Tsarina Natalya Kirillovna, the mother of Peter the Great, took part in the fate of the temple in the second half of the 17th century.

The new building at the very end of the 17th century was erected with funds donated by Maxim Sharovnikov, a Kostroma merchant and his Moscow colleague and namesake Verkhovitinov. Fragments of an old building from the late 16th century are part of the new building. One of the chapels of the church was consecrated in honor of the Confessor, so the temple became known under two names.

The next major renovation of the temple took place in the first half of the 18th century after the fire of 1737. A hundred years later, after the Napoleonic fire, instead of the belfry, an Empire bell tower in two tiers was built near the church.

Under Soviet rule, the temple was closed in the 30s, its building lost its head and valuable elements of utensils and decoration. After restoration in the 60s, the building was transferred to the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation.

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