Description of the attraction
Among the parishioners of the Church of Fyodor Studit, also known as the Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, was the family of the famous Russian commander Alexander Suvorov. His father, Vasily Ivanovich, was buried next to the church, and in honor of his son, the Soviet authorities in the 60s of the last century proposed to arrange a museum in this building. However, the museum was not created, and the building was returned to the believers, and services were resumed in the church in the 90s. Currently, the building is recognized as an architectural monument of federal significance. It is located on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, and the church has long been known as standing at the Nikitsky Gate.
According to historians, the first church was built in the 15th century, but burned down in a Moscow fire in 1547. The reason for the foundation of the temple was the end of the standing of the Russian and khan troops on the Urga River, which put an end to the Tatar-Mongol yoke. The date (November 11, 1480) coincided with the day of veneration of the Monk Fyodor the Studite.
The next building of the temple was built in the 20s of the 17th century and belonged to the Fedorov hospital monastery, which was founded by the Moscow Patriarch Filaret at about the same time. According to the main altar, the church was named in honor of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, and one of the two chapels located in the refectory was consecrated in the name of Fyodor the Studite.
After the abolition of the monastery at the beginning of the 18th century, the church became a parish church. A hundred years later, the temple was badly damaged in the fire of 1812, but was quickly restored, and in the second half of the same century, it was also significantly rebuilt.
In the 20s of the last century, the church was closed, the heads of the building were demolished, all architectural decorations were removed, and in 1937 the bell tower was dismantled to the very basement. The building of the temple was occupied by the Research Institute of the Ministry of Food Industry.
