Description of the attraction
Before the 1917 revolution, there were three dozen thrones in Moscow, consecrated in honor of the holiday 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 art workers living nearby appealed to the authorities with a request 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 Assumption 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 Slovushche was built in the middle of the 16th century. This building burned down in a fire in April 1629, but after five years the temple was revived in stone and has survived 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 Eliseevsky.
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 Trimifuntsky, and another side-altar of the temple is named after Nicholas the Wonderworker. Since the church was not closed during the Soviet period, there were other relics transferred from closed and destroyed churches.
