Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on Lyshchikovaya Gora description and photos - Russia - Moscow: Moscow (Topic)

Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on Lyshchikovaya Gora description and photos - Russia - Moscow: Moscow. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Church of the Intercession on Lyshchikovaya Gora is one of the few in Moscow that did not stop its activities even in Soviet times. Despite the fact that the valuables were seized in the 1920s, and in the 1930s his priests and members of the church council were arrested, the temple was not closed. On the contrary, during the Great Patriotic War, parishioners of the church were even awarded a letter of thanks signed by Joseph Stalin for collecting a considerable amount and donating it to the defense fund. At the end of the last century, the Intercession Church acquired the relics of the priest Roman Medved, who in the 30s was arrested, exiled to a camp and died in 1937. At the end of the twentieth century, he was glorified as a new martyr.

The first Church of the Intercession was built on the territory of the Intercession Monastery, located on Lyshchikovaya Gora on the left bank of the Yauza. The monastery was at first on the grand-ducal, and then on the royal maintenance. The monastery, along with land and property, was inherited from the princes to their sons. The first mentions of this monastery date back to the 80s of the 15th century.

At the end of the 16th century, a new line of city fortifications began to be built around Moscow - Zemlyanoy Val, and Lyshchikova Gora became part of this embankment, and the Pokrovsky Monastery appeared on the territory Earthen City and stood almost at the very wall of Skorodom - another city defensive structure.

In the Time of Troubles, the wooden Skorodom was burned, the fire element "grabbed" and the Intercession Monastery. The restoration of the fortification in the form of an earthen rampart began in 1638. These works were supervised by Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, and on the territory of the Intercession Church, then already a parish, the Sukharev Streltsy Regiment was placed.

By the end of the 17th century, the church, damaged in a fire, fell into disrepair, and in 1695-1697 it was rebuilt in stone with a two-tiered bell tower and porch. In the next century, the church burned twice, and at the end of the 18th century, its restoration began again. Work was interrupted due to the outbreak of World War II and the invasion of Moscow by the French. The unfinished church was plundered. Divine services in it resumed already in 1814.

Today, the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos is a functioning temple and a cultural heritage site located in Lyshchikov Lane.

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