Description of the attraction
In the restoration of this church in the 90s of the last century, completely different people played an important role: the mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, as well as famous rock musicians who were among the parishioners of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki. Luzhkov's personal order accelerated the course of restoration work, and the musicians Boris Grebenshchikov and Alexander Lipnitsky donated many icons to the temple.
The first church on the site of the Assumption Church in the Assumption Lane was built in the 16th century. The name of the area - Putinki - comes from the name of the country palace of the Moscow prince Vasily the Third. The palace itself was called Travel, and the entrances to it were crooked, "confused". The church was first mentioned in documents in the 1920s, and the building was built even earlier. The main shrine of the temple of that time was considered the icon "Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos", which streamed myrrh.
In the second half of the 17th century, the church was rebuilt in stone, a few years later, towards the end of the century, the Nikolsky side-chapel was added to it, and the bell tower appeared only after the middle of the 18th century.
A few years after the October Revolution of 1917, the church was closed, its valuables were confiscated, and the upper part of the main building and the bell tower were demolished. The house, fenced off from the inside and adapted for housing, over time was overgrown with extensions, which more and more hid the original appearance of the building. Part of the church land was also seized and transferred to the embassy of the Republic of Benin. Until the 90s, the building of the former church housed the workshops of the Moscow House of Models and an enterprise for the production of medicines.
The building of the Assumption Church was transferred to the church in 1992, but even earlier a community had already formed around it, which included famous Moscow musicians.
