Description of the attraction
The current building of the temple of Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka was built in 1793, although the church on this site existed before. As noted in the documents of the first half of the 17th century, the church that stood here was already made of stone, and before it in the 16th century there was a wooden structure.
In its history, the Kosmodamianskaya church on Maroseyka was known under different names: as a temple in the name of St. Nicholas on the main throne, as Kosmodamianskaya after one of the chapels consecrated in honor of the holy wonderworkers, and even as Kazan after the chapel in honor of Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.
At the end of the 17th century, the old church became two-story, and a hundred years later the parishioners recognized it as dilapidated and submitted to Metropolitan Plato of Moscow a petition to demolish the old church and build a new one, which was consecrated in the name of Christ the Savior, the paralyzed Healer.
Colonel Mikhail Khlebnikov was one of the main donors who financed the construction of the current building of the church. Despite the fact that, according to the main throne, the church now began to be called the Spasskaya, the people continued to call it Kosmodamian. The author of the project of the new building was Matvey Kazakov.
The next significant renovation of the church took place at the end of the 19th century, when the building was overhauled, the interior of the church was also transformed.
With the advent of Soviet power, the temple was closed, they even planned to blow it up, but they did not do it. The building changed its temporary owners several times and served as a warehouse, a motorcycle club, an archive and even a pub. The values of the temple were lost. The transfer of the building to the Russian Orthodox Church and the resumption of services took place in the 90s.
One of the main shrines of the temple is the icon of the Savior, the Healer of the paralytic, which is considered to be healing. The church building is an object of cultural heritage of Russia.
