Description of the attraction
This temple of the Life-Giving Trinity stands on Sretenka. In the 17th century, in this place they sold "sheets" - cheap prints, which the sellers hung right on the fence of the church.
The first church building was built in the 30s of the 17th century. Initially, there was a cemetery around the church, but by the middle of the century the church became a regimental streltsy temple. The new trustees of the church initiated its reconstruction in stone, and he also received the encouragement given to the archers by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich for the capture of Stenka Razin. The promotion consisted of one and a half hundred thousand bricks, icons, church utensils. The stone temple was erected next to the old wooden building, its consecration took place in 1661. In the 80s of the same century, in honor of the end of the campaigns to the city of Chigirin, the Pokrovsky side-chapel was added to the temple.
A few years later, a fire broke out in the church, after which the archers again received help to restore it. Help this time came from Peter the Great and represented 700 rubles, with which the tsar encouraged the streltsy for suppressing the rebellion of the boyar Fyodor Shaklovity, who in 1689 opposed Peter.
In the second half of the 18th century, the refectory and the bell tower were renovated near the church, and a chapel in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos was built with donations from the merchant Kolosov. Another side-altar was built, which was rededicated at the beginning of the 19th century in the name of St. Alexis. In the second half of the 19th century, the interior decoration of the church continued, the iconostasis was renewed.
Under Soviet rule, the temple was closed at the end of the 30s, the building was disfigured by demolitions, superstructures and alterations. It housed a dormitory, sculpture workshops. The destruction of the building continued in the second half of the century - in the 50s the bell tower was demolished, and in the 70s, during the construction of the metro station, cracks went through the building, and its basements were flooded with water. The building was preserved and restored on the eve of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. In the 90s, the temple was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church.
