Description of the attraction
The Church of St. Nicholas in Novovagankovsky Lane has been known since the first half of the 17th century. The first was built in 1628, a wooden church, also consecrated in honor of Nicholas the Wonderworker. The church stood next to the royal Psarny yard and therefore received the prefix "in the Psary" to its name.
Throughout its history, this St. Nicholas Church has changed its location several times and, accordingly, the specifying geographic prefix too. Also, this temple was called Nikolsky, which is on the Three Mountains, since at the end of the 17th century it was moved to its current place in the area of the former Trekhgornaya Zastava. Trekhgornaya was one of the outposts that existed until the middle of the 19th century on the Kamer-Kollezhsky Val - it served as the customs border of the capital.
A village located near Moscow was then called new Vagankov. It was founded in the 16th century, and there was a village nearby called Old Vagankovo. Now Novoye Vagankovo is part of the territory of the Presnensky District; it has been part of the capital since the 18th century.
In the 60s-70s of the 18th century, instead of the wooden one, a stone three-altar church was erected, to which a high bell tower and a refectory were added a hundred years later. The next reconstruction of the temple with its subsequent consecration took place in the early years of the twentieth century.
With the advent of Soviet power, the fate of the temple was a foregone conclusion. If some churches were closed in the mid and late 30s, then Nikolsky closed in the late 20s, the building was immediately converted into a club, and then for almost seventy years it was occupied by the house of pioneers, which bore the name of Pavlik Morozov.
After the transfer of the building to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992 and its subsequent restoration, the temple was able to return to its original appearance.
