Kadashi Church

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The Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi is an Orthodox church of the Moskvoretsk deanery of the Moscow diocese. The temple is located in the Yakimanka area, the Central Administrative District of Moscow, between the two main roads to the south - Polyanka and Ordynka (2nd Kadashevsky Lane, 7/14.). The first mention of the Church of the Resurrection dates back to 1493. In a letter addressed to his sons, the Moscow governor, Prince Ivan Patrikeev, scrupulously designated his possessions, indicating that at that time he owned a village across the river, behind a meadow, near the Resurrection, and that he, the prince, lived there as serfs. [1] In 1504, Grand Duke Ivan III already spoke of this area as the village of Kadashev. Initially, the temple was called "the Church of the Resurrection, which is on Gryazeh". This name was associated with the spring floods of the Moskva River and the close location of the temple to the swampy bank. I.M.Snegirev pointed out that the original church existed already in 1624, since in that year it paid the money for the gun. Since 1625, regular entries about the temple appear in the Patriarchal salary books. The Church of the Resurrection in Kadashi, according to modern scholars, served as the main vertical, compositional dominant and was the "cathedral" church of Zamoskvorechye and determined the main urban planning axis of Moscow: from the bell tower of Ivan the Great through the Church of the Resurrection in Kadashi to the palace church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye. The first stone building, built in 1656, existed for about 30 years. From this building, the southern apse (the lower part of the temple) and the stone basement-storeroom under the altars have survived to this day [1]. In 1687, construction began on a new two-story five-domed church. The construction was carried out at the expense of the residents of the Kadashevskaya Sloboda - merchants Kondrat Markovich Dobrynin and his son Longin Kondratovich. Along the top of the covered bypass galleries there was a porch-gulbishe, to which wide staircases led from the north, west and south. In 1695, three staircases were dismantled, the remains of their supporting structures were converted into portals of the lower temple. A six-storey bell tower with a height of more than 43 meters was added to the western side. Its decor, made in brick, repeated the white stone decor of the church. The temple was built in the Moscow Baroque style, which is characterized by graceful proportions and an openwork silhouette. Window frames, portals, combs and cornices are decorated with carvings on white stone. There are four altars in the temple. The main throne is the Resurrection of Christ, after which the entire temple is named. The walls of the temple were painted by the tsarist iconographers Pyotr Belyaev, Nikolay Solomonov, Pyotr Korobov and Pyotr Bilindin. The inventories mention a silver, gilded frame for the Gospel of the main throne of the church, which weighed about 13 kg and other expensive utensils. Shrines of the temple: The relics of the Optina elders (icon with relics); The relics of the Monk Confessor Gabriel, Archimandrite of Melekess and other saints; The image of the Holy Martyr Tsar Nicholas; Pochaev icon of the Mother of God; Icon of the Monk Job, hegumen of Pochaev; Icon of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia; Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God.

The first mention of the church at this place dates back to 1493. The construction of the two-story five-domed church was started in 1687, and then in 1695 a slender hipped six-story bell tower was built, which is popularly called the "candle". The southern façade of the church houses the oldest sundial in the city. The building of the temple is a vivid example of the "Moscow baroque" / "Naryshkin baroque". Sophistication is achieved by the presence of many details of white stone carving. The alleged builder was the architect Sergei Turchaninov

a temple with a difficult fate, has stood here since the 15th century, at first as a rural one, then as a settlement of artisans who made tubs - hence the name of the place, which was previously called Gryaz. Made like an elegant Moscow baroque, and after the construction of the bell tower it became the dominant feature of Zamoskvorechye, echoing the bell tower of Ivan the Great on the other side. It was completely looted twice - for the first time in 1812, by the French, who set up a stable here, they ransacked the church until salaries, only the domes were not torn off. And having escaped, they froze or ran into a pitchfork, somewhere along the road. The offspring of the Parisian commune, 122 years later, were supported by their ideological grandchildren, the Bolsheviks, who had already taken out everything, having torn off the domes, only gave the bell to the Bolshoi Theater, knocked down the crosses and set up a factory sports club, then the KGB archive and Grabar's workshops. Already in fat capitalism, the Luzhkov hucksters-developers tried to demolish the temple for residential development. But this, the adversaries did not succeed. Worth it.