Description of the attraction
The land on which the Troitskaya black (craft) settlement was located was granted at the beginning of the 17th century to the Moscow courtyard of the monastery, which is now called the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. In 1609, these lands were endowed with the tsar Vasily Shuisky. Currently, the Trinity Church, located in the 2nd Trinity Lane, is also a courtyard of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.
The first wooden Trinity Church was built in the settlement in the 30s of the 17th century. In addition to the main throne, it also had a side-altar, consecrated in honor of Sergius and Nikon of Radonezh. Towards the end of the century, the church was rebuilt, but left wooden, and after a few years it was decided to dismantle it, and on this site to build a new building, already made of stone. In the middle of the 19th century, another side-chapel appeared near the church - in honor of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, built according to the project of the architect Alexei Martynov. The current church also has a side-altar, consecrated in honor of one more icon of the Mother of God - the Iberian one.
The lands of the Trinity Sloboda remained with the monastery until the October Revolution of 1917. The Trinity Church functioned for several years after the Bolsheviks came to power. So, from 1918 to 1922, the church was also the courtyard of the Patriarch of Moscow Tikhon. In May 1922, by a court decision, Tikhon was prosecuted and imprisoned in one of the premises of the Donskoy Monastery.
Immediately after the patriarch left his courtyard in the Trinity Sloboda, the Trinity Church was occupied by the Renovationists, and the building housed the Supreme Church Administration of this new religious movement. However, the renovationists stayed in the church for only two years - already in 1924 the Trinity Church was closed, the religious attributes were removed from the building, and then the assembly department was located in it.
In the late 70s, while preparing the capital for the Olympics-80, the Trinity Sloboda was demolished, but the building of the former temple was soon transferred to the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra. In the 90s, the building was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church.
