Description of the attraction
The Old Believers' Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos of the Zamoskvoretskaya community was built by the architect V. Desyatov in 1908-1910. The new church arose on the basis of the private house prayer house of the Musorins, which had existed since 1873. The house chapel eventually became a public place and became very cramped for parishioners.
The new church was laid in October 1908. The house chapel of the Musorins and the chapel in the house of Volkov, the parish priest, were abolished. Their property passed to the new church. The church was built by order of the community of Old Believers belonging to the Belokrinitsky priesthood, which venerates the District Epistle. More than one hundred thousand rubles were spent on the construction and decoration of the church.
The temple belongs to the typical Old Believer churches, made in the "Old Russian style" and included in it elements of the Art Nouveau style. The temple has two chapels: Nicholas the Wonderworker and St. Sergius. The main part of the temple is crowned with a helmet-shaped dome. The upper part of the church bell tower has an octahedral shape and is crowned with a dome on a low drum. Some elements of the building are made in the style of Novgorod architecture. These are triangular pediments at the corners, an arcature under the cornice on the wall on the east side, and arches on the side facades. The interior decoration of the temple was made by the artists of the workshop of Y. Bogatenko, which specialized in Old Believer icon painting.
After the October Revolution, the temple was closed. In 1930, the building of the temple was transferred to Osoviachim. In 1970, the ORS of Metrostroy was located. During these years, the interior wall painting was lost. The open bells of the bell tower were bricked up, the cross was dismantled. Only some finishing elements have survived to this day: part of the fence from the side of Novokuznetskaya Street and wooden gates.
In 1990, the temple was transferred to the Old Believer community, but another one - to the White Popes. They belong to the Old Orthodox Church of the Novozybkov Archdiocese. In January 1991, services were resumed in the church. Nowadays it is the Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church.
