Description of the attraction
The Trinity Church, located in Khokhlovsky lane, was popularly known as the Trinity Church in Khokhlov, on Khokhlovka, and even as Trinity in the Old Gardens. This area was called Khokhlovka due to the fact that in the middle of the 17th century the Dnipropetrovsk Cossacks settled here and the courtyard of Hetman Mazepa was located. The area was called the old gardens because of the gardens planted by order of Prince Vasily the First next to his palace.
The first mention of this temple dates back to 1610. In the middle of the same century, the church was mentioned in the Construction Book already as a stone church, and among its parishioners were representatives of famous Moscow families - for example, Khitrovo, Glebov and Izmailov. Later, the Golitsyns, Sytins, Sheremetevs were added to them …
It is known that in the second half of the 17th century the church was partially rebuilt, and even Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich donated ten rubles for its renovation. At that time, the church had side-chapels consecrated in honor of the Monk Sergius of Radonezh and the Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. At that time, the Lopukhins lived on the territory of the parish, who approached the court after the marriage of Evdokia Lopukhina and Peter the Great and fell out of favor after the Empress was imprisoned in a monastery. At the very end of the 17th century, the sister of Fyodor Lopukhin, the emperor's father-in-law, Evdokia Chirikova donated funds to renovate the church. The renovated brick building was richly decorated in the tradition of the Moscow Baroque style.
However, the splendor of the temple was seriously damaged during the fire of 1737; a second fire in the late 1940s also destroyed the roof of the church. During the Patriotic War of 1812, the church suffered slightly, so its next major renovation took place only at the end of the 19th century.
In the 30s of the last century, the church was closed, deprived of its chapters, and the anthropological museum of Moscow State University moved into its premises. In the 70s-80s, the building was restored, and then it was occupied by scientific institutions of the oil and gas industry. In the 90s, the building was handed over to believers.
