Description of the attraction
This church of the holy apostles Peter and Paul was built in the White City on Ivanovskaya Gorka - one of the seven hills on which Moscow stands, but it also has other geographic prefixes to the name - at the Yauzskie gates and on Kulishki. A more accurate definition, most likely, is the first one - the temple was located at the gates of the White City, due to the proximity to the river, called Yauzsky. The area was called Kulishki after the felling of the forest. Now at this place is the Yauzskie Vorota square, and the Peter and Paul Cathedral is one of its attractions. The more accurate address of the temple is Petropavlovsky Lane. Today this temple has the status of a Patriarchal courtyard and is a courtyard of the Orthodox Church of Serbia.
The first mention of the Peter and Paul Church, single-altar, but already made of stone, dates back to 1631. The temple was rebuilt at the turn of the 17th-18th centuries and has survived in this form (taking into account subsequent restorations and extensions) to this day. In the 18th century, the temple became three-altar - an altar in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Sign" and a chapel in honor of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God were built to the existing altar in honor of Peter and Paul. This structure of the temple has survived to this day.
The Peter and Paul Church was twice damaged by fires: in the middle of the 18th century, the building was badly burned and was later restored, and in 1812 the fire did not touch the temple itself, but destroyed other church buildings.
In Soviet times, the temple was not closed, on the contrary, it gave temporary shelter to those icons and other relics that were removed from closed and destroyed churches. Also, in the first decades of Soviet power, the Church of Cyrus and John on Solyanka was destroyed, in which from the second half of the 19th century there was a courtyard of the Serbian Orthodox Church. After the Great Patriotic War, the Church of St. Peter and Paul was provided to the Serbian courtyard, but it could resume its work only at the very end of the 20th century - after the St. Peter and Paul Church acquired the status of the Patriarchal courtyard.
