Description of the attraction
The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Vishnyakovsky Lane was one of the few churches that were not closed during the Soviet era. In the old days, the temple was called according to its location - “in the Kuznetsk settlement”.
The settlement, in which the masters of the hammer and anvils lived, was formed in Zamoskvorechye (then - in Zarechye) at the very end of the 15th century. Around the same time, a building for religious purposes already existed on the site of the present temple. As the church of St. Nicholas in the Kuznetsk Sloboda, the building was mentioned only in the first half of the 18th century. Then the church was still wooden, but towards the end of the century it became stone.
The building in which the temple is now located was erected in 1805, forty years later a refectory and side-altars were added to it, and the bell tower that had existed since the end of the 17th century was rebuilt and re-decorated.
The main temple altar was consecrated in honor of Nicholas of Mirliki, the southern one was named after the Monk Sergius of Radonezh, and the northern one was consecrated in honor of the Feast of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos.
With the advent of Soviet power, the temple in Kuznetsy was not only not closed, but also served as a place where religious relics from other (closed or destroyed) churches were brought for storage. One of these shrines transferred to the 30s of the last century is the icon of the Mother of God "Satisfy my sorrows." Before being transferred to the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Kuznets, it was kept in the St. Nicholas Church in Sadovniki and was considered miraculous.
In the early 90s, a baptistery was built next to the temple - a room with a font for baptism. In 1992, the temple received the status of the main temple of the Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanitarian University.
