Description of the attraction
The Church of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir in Starye Sadekh received its name in honor of the Baptist of Russia, as well as for the peculiarities of the area in which it was located. In the 15th century, the wooden church of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir was a domovoy; it was built by the Prince of Moscow and Vladimir Vasily I next to his summer palace, which was surrounded by beautiful gardens.
Currently, the temple is located in the Starosadsky lane of the Basmanny district. In addition to the main altar, consecrated in the name of St. Vladimir, the church also has two chapels bearing the names of Saints Boris and Gleb, Kirik and Julita.
The temple was rebuilt in the first half of the 16th century, when another prince, Vasily III, commissioned the Italian architect Aleviz Fryazin (or New) to build 11 stone churches in Moscow. The consecration of the new Prince Vladimir Church took place in 1516.
The next reconstruction of the church took place in the 17th century. By that time, the building was considered dilapidated and therefore was dismantled almost to the very foundation, and then it was rebuilt at the expense of the steward Ivan Verderevsky. Only the southern portal and the lower tier of walls have survived from the building built by Aleviz the New. At the end of the same century, the bell tower of the church was rebuilt, and then the temple was rebuilt twice more - after two large fires that occurred in 1737 and 1812. Another fire occurred in the building already in Soviet times - in 1980, when the reserve funds of the State Public Historical Library were located in the church building. By the way, the placement of these funds at the dawn of the Soviet period helped save the building from complete destruction after the church was closed in the 30s.
In the late 1980s, the building was restored and returned to the Orthodox Church. Today, the church has several Orthodox institutions, including a kindergarten and schools, workshops and a charitable society.
