Original taken from mu_pankratov in MOSCOW OLD BELIEVERS.

I decided, friends, to sum up the Old Believer places in Moscow. Let's put aside for now - mansions and houses of wealthy Old Believers, let's also put aside factories, factories, hospitals and others... there are still quite a few objects left! Looking at the number of Old Believer churches and prayer houses, the question inevitably arises: “Did Nikonians live in Moscow before the revolution?”...just kidding, just kidding...they probably lived.)))
I counted about 70 churches and prayer houses. I tried to post my photos and posts, and a prostration for the materials to my fellow believer and LiveJournal comrade- Rostovetz . I will try to fill each number with photographs and information. (if you, dear friends, have material or corrections, I will be very grateful!)

1. Church complex on Rogozhsky.
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/66830.html
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/3671.html cemetery
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/171558.html Institute on Rogozhsky (school No. 459)

in the photo: on the left - the Nativity Cathedral, the Bell Tower and the Church of the Assumption Mother of God, Intercession Cathedral, St. Nicholas Church (now Nikonian), st. Old Believer. (all temples are active)

2. Spiritual center Bezpopovtsy Feodoseyevites to the Preobrazhenskoe cemetery.
Now there are three prayer houses left, the main one (pictured) Holy Cross Church.
(current)

3.Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at Tverskaya Zastava. Butyrsky Val, 8.
(current)
Since I am a parishioner of the St. Nicholas Church, I probably have the most photos about it.)))
divided into 5 parts, by year.
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/145169.html
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/145819.html
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/146339.html
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/146703.html
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/147043.html

4. St. Nicholas Church(non-okrugniks) Lefortovo lane. (metro station Baumanskaya)
(some are occupied by offices, sometimes prayer services are held)
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/36304.html
http://rostovetz.livejournal.com/96135.html

5.VVEDENSKAYA OLD BELIEVER CHURCH ON GENERALNAYA (ELECTROZAVODSKAYA) STREET
(not preserved)
http://rostovetz.livejournal.com/140679.html?thread=694151&

6.Church in the name of St. Catherine in the house of the Moscow merchant of the 2nd guild I.I. Karaseva, Baumanskaya st. 20 (Devkin lane)
(only the bell tower has survived)
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/174974.html

7.Temple of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Nikolo-Smolensk community of the Belokrinitsky community of Moscow on Vargunikhin Hill. (Smolenskaya embankment)
(not preserved)
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/151754.html

8. Zamoskvoretsk community of the Belokrinitsky hierarchy, Church of the Intercession.st. Novokuznetskaya, 38
(current)
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/207518.html

9. Ostozhensk Old Believer community. Intercession Church. Turchaninov lane 4
(current)
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/152032.html

10. Karikino Belokrinitsa Old Believer community with Church of the Intercession
(now there is a children's theater here)
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/128804.html
http://rostovetz.livejournal.com/97732.html

11. Temple Tikhvin icon Mother of God on Khavskaya street
(restaurant closed, for sale)
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/234869.html

added 06/30/14 "Continuation of bad news from Khavskaya..." http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/283479.html

12.Church of the 2nd Pomeranian community. Tokmakov lane
(restoration in progress)
http://rostovetz.livejournal.com/228079.html

13. Assumption Cathedral Church on Apukhtinka on Novoselensky Lane, 6
(now a dorm)
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/235560.html

14. TEMPLE OF THE NIKOLO-ROGOZH OLD BELIEVER COMMUNITY, st. Vekovaya, 15
(last owner - SPS lot, put up for sale)
http://rodnaya-starina.livejournal.com/9632.html

15. Old Believer Church of the Intercession and Assumption in Maly Gavrikovo lane
(now it has a gym for wrestlers)
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/150747.html

16. Soldatenkov’s house prayer house on Myasnitskaya.
Year of construction: between approximately 1857 and approximately 1857.
Architect: A.I. Rezanov
http://aromus.livejournal.com/35513.html

17.Church of Matthew the Apostle in Kuznetsov's house, Prospekt Mira 43
http://niernsee.livejournal.com/50786.html

18.Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, priests, in the Rakhmanovs’ house, Bakuninskaya 2
Year of construction: Between 1895 and 1898.
Architect: Kondratenko
(now the building has been transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church for offices)

The prayer room was located on the second floor of the extension from the courtyard.

19.Sergius and Bacchus, priests, in the Balashov house, Gzhelsky lane. 13

20. In Ryabushinsky's house, Mal. Nikitskaya, 6/2
Nowadays it is the M. Gorky Museum.

21.In the Nosovs' house st. Small Semenovskaya 1

Painting of the main staircase and prayer room of the Nosovs' house. Its performer is the outstanding artist Dobuzhinsky. Customer, wife of V. Nosov, Efimiya Nosova (nee Ryabushinskaya).
http://alekka4alin2012.livejournal.com/259242.html

22.In Morozov's house Podsosensky lane 21, p.3
Architect: D.N. Chichagov, F. Shekhtel
Good report - http://il-ducess.livejournal.com/97702.html

23.Trinity Holy, priests, in Sveshnikov’s house, Samokatnaya st. 2
(not preserved)

24.Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Filipovites, in the Frolovs’ house, st. Rabochaya 39
(not preserved)

25.Temple-Chapel of the Assumption Holy Mother of God Moscow Pomeranian Old Believers Community
st. Preobrazhensky Val, 25 (the current, western half of the church with the bell tower belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church)

26. in Milovanova’s house, priests, Bol. Semenovskaya, 47 (not preserved)

27. Introduction of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the house of Spiridonov Mal. Andronevskaya, 24
(not preserved) now there is a transformer booth

28. Holy Cross Feodoseyevtsy Chapel Preobrazhenskoye Cl.
(current)

29. Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, Beglopopovtsy, in Lubkova’s house. St. Bakhrushina, 25
now, in the building - the Five Stars cinema, in the 30s - the Mossovet cinema.

30. Mary of Egypt, in the Morozov house, priests. Trekhsvyatitelsky lane 1
http://a-dedushkin.livejournal.com/839689.html

31. St. Nicholas the Wonderworker First Moscow Community of Pomeranian Consent, Perevedenovsky Lane 24
(not preserved) The temple was built in 1908 according to the design of the architect I.E. Bondarenko

32. St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, priests, in the house of A.E. Khrapunova str. Sadovo-Sukharevskaya, 7 (not preserved)

33. St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, chapel, Feodoseyevtsy, Preobrazhenskoe cemetery
(current) http://www.pavel-prusskiy.ru/ssorokov50.html

34. Peter and Paul, priests, in the house of S.A. Nyrkova (Morozova), Shelaputinsky lane. 1
80s

35. Peter and Paul, priests, in the Muravyovs’ house, st. Bakhrushina (not preserved)

36. Peter and Paul, priests, in the house of A.G. Kremnevoy, Honey Lane 4
(in the photo is house No. 3, the edge of the estate complex is visible on the right)

37. Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, priests, in the Baulins’ house, Taganskaya Sq. 1 (not preserved)
(pictured in 1888, the beginning of Bolshaya Alekseevskaya Street (from 1924 to 2008 - Bolshaya Kommunisticheskaya Street; since 2009 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Street)

38. Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, priests in the Polezhaev house, st. Bakhrushina (not preserved)

39. St. Sergius, priests, in Milovanova’s house, Izmailovskoye sh., no. 1 (not preserved)
photo from Oldmos. Taken approximately from the 13th house. Milovanova's house was on the right, at the intersection (now there is a vacant lot and a parking lot there)

40. Savior Not Made by Hands, Feodoseyevtsy, st. Bakuninskaya, 55, convent(not preserved)

41.Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, priests, Balakirievsky 2

42. Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, neo-okrugniks, in Kozlov’s house, Zemlyanoy Val, 7 (not preserved)
Presumably house No. 7 (1910)

43. Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Filipovtsy, Durnoy lane. 6
A long house is visible in the courtyard of the Filippovskaya almshouse and the former bell tower. Everything was destroyed in 1982.

44. Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Popovtsy, Nikoloyamsky lane 6

45. Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, priests, Printers (not preserved)
The house in which the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Old Believers of the Belokrinitsky hierarchy operated until the 1930s was located near the tunnel under the Kursk railway (nowadays Polbina Street, 9)..

46.Prayer room in the house of A.V. Smirnova st. Solzhenitsyna 11

47."Ravine Prayer" priests - Kolomenskoye (not preserved)
http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/620492.html

48. Feodoseyevskaya prayer house on Semenovskaya.
(opened recently, in an abandoned building el.p/st)

54. Assumption Prayer House at the Rogozhskoe cemetery (circulators - All-Russian Old Calendar. M., 1910),

55. Saint Nicholas in Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane, 1 (house of F.E. Morozova - - All-Russian Old Calendar. M., 1910)
It is unknown who currently occupies the building... although everything is well maintained.

The church is on the top floor and a cast-iron staircase led there (disappeared without a trace)

56. c. Rev. Sergius in B. Vokzalny Lane, Fedorov House No. 21 (neokruzhniki-Josephites, - All-Russian Old Calendar. M., 1910)

57. Monk Gennady's Prayer Service(Zavalova) on Blagush (2nd Khapilovskaya - neo-okruzhniki-Danilovites, - All-Russian Old Calendar. M., 1910)

58. Saint Nicholas in the house of the Khudyakovs, on Voronaya Street (beglopopovtsy-non-communalists - All-Russian Old Calendar. M., 1910)

59. Six prayer houses of different names in the former women’s quarters Preobrazhensky almshouse(in each of the buildings)
http://rostovetz.livejournal.com/76652.html

60. Kazan prayer house in Losinoostrovsky dachas (Beglopopovtsy)
http://-http://rostovetz.livejournal.com/15280.html

61.prayer room of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the house of Isaac Nosov.
Year of construction: between approximately 1900 and approximately 1917.
Address: Pushkarev per. 7.

62. Prayer room in the house of the Feodoseyevsky scribe Egor Egorovich Egorov. Dmitrovsky lane (Saltykovsky), 1,12

The owner of the house on the left side of Dmitrovsky Lane (No. 1/12), merchant E. E. Egorov, became famous for his collection of icons, early printed books and manuscripts. He tragically ended his life - in November 1917 he was killed by robbers, but the collection survived, and now its book and manuscript part is kept in the Russian state library, and icons in various museums.

63. Prayer room in the Rakhmanovs' house(priests) Goncharnaya street/Sewing Hill/, property No. 9.
Children in the yard. The house of the Rakhmanov family of industrialists, who owned several properties on Taganka. Old Believers, philanthropists, these people were unusually diverse in their hobbies. Together with the Zimins, Alekseevs, Ptitsins, Tyulyaevs and Zubovs, they set the tone for the entire cultural and public life old Taganka.
The owner of the house, Georgy Konstantinovich Rakhmanov, built a prayer room in the house, which was not called anything other than a temple-museum. There were more than 500 ancient icons in it. In 1918, the Proletarian Museum of the Rogozhsko-Simonovsky District was organized in the Rakhmanovs’ house. With the liquidation of the museum, the collection was distributed among the collections of the largest museums in the country. http://mu-pankratov.livejournal.com/363709.html
Sofiyskaya embankment, 69

66. Church of Elijah the Prophet of the Tver Old Believer community.
Tverskaya st.
photo 1979 from the book “Forty Forty” by P. Palamarchuk

At the end of the eighteenth century, Old Believers became a new hobby for Riga residents. Already by the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Old Believers owned three houses of worship, the main one of which was a house on the banks of the Daugava River, today better known as the Grebenshchikov House. And although now the house is quite far from the river, previously it was on its very bank.

It is believed that the temple was founded in 1760. Initially, the church was located in an old wooden barn. This barn belonged to merchants, first to Savva Dyakonov, and later to Gavrila Panin. In 1793, the building was purchased, after which it was completely rebuilt; in 1798, the temple was already built of stone. The temple was named in honor of a merchant named Grebenshchikov.

Today it is a famous cultural and historical monument. There is a large prayer hall with a beautiful iconostasis, in addition there are ceremonial rooms, administrative rooms and even apartments for clergy. In addition, the house has a luxurious library and a collection of icons, many of which date back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Today not only Old Believers pray here, but there is also an independent parish. Already in the second half of the eighteenth century, the parish had its own shelter for the poor. In the year two thousand, in honor of the two hundred and fortieth anniversary of the house of worship, a special conference was organized. Since then, a tradition has arisen here to hold gatherings in honor of various special occasions. For example, in 2010, the Old Believers released a luxurious publication with photographs dedicated to the Grebenshchikov Prayer House.

During the reign Soviet power residential apartments were located here. Today, there is again an Old Believer parish here, which is considered the largest in the whole world. This includes on average twenty-five thousand believers. Divine services are held in accordance with all old traditions and rituals.

st. Lenina, 100

Old Believer chapel. 2015

In the pre-revolutionary period, there were many religious buildings on Voznesenskaya (Nikolaevskaya) Street, but most of them belonged to the Orthodox Church. At the same time, many Old Believers lived in the Vyatka province; they were active in commercial, industrial and social activities, while, of course, needing its own religious building in the provincial center. In the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries. Old Belief was especially widespread in the districts located in the east (Glazovsky), south (Malmyzhsky, Urzhumsky) and southeast (Sarapulsky) of the Vyatka region. In the city of Vyatka, the Old Believers community, according to the 1897 census, included 284 people, which was about 21% of the total number of Old Believers in the Vyatka district.

Until the beginning of the 20th century. The Old Believers in Vyatka actually did not have their own prayer house; they met in private apartments. For example, in the house of the Laptev merchants on the same Voznesenskaya street (with late XIX V. - Nikolaevskaya). At the same time, it is curious that in the districts of the Vyatka province, prayer houses were actively functioning at that time. For example, in the Urzhum district lived the famous timber merchants Bushkovs, whose funds supported the chapel of the Bespopov Old Believers (Danilovites and Fedoseevites) in the village of Russky Turek. A wealthy timber merchant, Savva Dmitrievich Shamov, lived in Urzhum, thanks to whose material assistance the existence of a prayer house for the Danilov Old Believers in the village of Komarovo was possible.

In 1895, in Vyatka, a plot of land on Nikolaevskaya Street was purchased by the Old Believer merchant Denis Faddeevich Zonov (c. 1848–1917) from the tradeswoman E. V. Skopina. He came from an old family of Vyatka merchants-Old Believers from the peasant clerics of the Podrelskaya St. Nicholas Church of the Oryol land. It was Zonov who launched stone construction on the estate and expanded its borders to the east. By the beginning of the 20th century. D. F. Zonov was one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs in Vyatka, the owner of several households, the head of a trading house with a large tannery. In addition, Zonov was an active philanthropist: during the First World War, in one of his houses he located an infirmary for lightly wounded soldiers, and sent large quantities of tobacco, matches, letter paper, threads, needles, pencils, and shoe ointment to the front.

At the beginning of the 20th century. The government is pursuing a policy of liberalizing religious policy. On April 17, 1905, Nicholas II signed a decree “On strengthening the principles of religious tolerance,” according to which the Old Believers were finally given equal rights with the adherents of the Russian Orthodox Church. They ceased to be called the hated word “schismatic”; persecution and persecution, which were especially harshly carried out by the tsarist administration in the era of Nicholas I, became a thing of the past. The concept of “Old Believers” now united all followers “interpretations and agreements that accept the basic dogmas of the Orthodox Church, but do not recognize some of the rituals accepted by it and conduct their worship according to old printed books”. The consequence of this policy of the authorities, aimed at legalizing the Old Believers, was an increase in the number of its followers in the Vyatka province from 105,528 people in 1905 to 115,644 people in 1909.

Old Believer chapel. 1970s

In 1910, in the estate on Nikolaevskaya Street, at the expense of Zonov and the Laptev merchants, the first Old Believer chapel in Vyatka was built for the community of Pomeranian Old Believers. The Pomeranian sense is one of the currents of the Old Believers, which rejects the Orthodox Church hierarchy and the sacrament of the priesthood. This feature of the doctrine was reflected in the architectural and planning design of the chapel - there was no altar in the prayer building. In accordance with the religious views of the Old Believers, the decorative design of the facades was dominated by motifs of ancient Russian architecture. The author of the building project was the architect E. K. Nykvist. The opening of the chapel was an important event for the religious life of Vyatka. On the occasion of the celebration, Denis Zonov received congratulatory telegrams from the Old Believer communities of Astrakhan, Yaroslavl, and Nizhny Novgorod. D. F. Zonov financed not only the construction of the prayer house, but also the purchase of icons for it. In particular, the Presentation of the Lord and the Entry into the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary were commissioned from the icon-painting workshop of F. A. Bochkarev in Syzran. For the first icon, according to the surviving correspondence of the merchant, they paid 35 rubles, for the second - 30 rubles.

Old Believer chapel. 1980s

It is curious that the chapel, although it was located on one of the main streets of the city, was not placed on the red line of its development, but was moved deeper into the block. Thus, behind the scattering of green spaces, not everyone could see what was happening in the religious building of the Old Believers. On the estate, once surrounded by a solid stone fence, in addition to the chapel, there were two stone outbuildings, a one-story wooden house and services. In 1915, service and residential premises were added to the northwestern corner of the chapel according to the design of I.K. Plotnikov.

After the revolution in 1918, all estate buildings were municipalized by the heirs of Denis Zonov. The chapel itself was closed in 1930, and its building was turned over for housing. In the early 1980s, the building was in disrepair, and there were plans to demolish it. However, the public managed to achieve the preservation of the chapel and its repair. The building is being reconstructed: a training hall is being installed in the former prayer room, a bathhouse-sauna with a swimming pool is being installed in the basement, the building houses sport school. Since 1995, the premises of the former Old Believer chapel have been occupied by municipal institution"Children's Philharmonic". In 2014, the issue of returning the chapel building to the Old Believer community was considered, but the municipality decided to refuse the believers.

Being both an Orthodox capital and a business center, Moscow has maintained a large Old Believer diaspora since the Schism. I have already written recently about its two centers - priestly and non-popovsky. To conclude the Old Believer topic, I will talk about several individual churches of the Moscow Old Believers. And specifically about those that were originally built as Old Believers.

Specifically, we will talk about prayer houses - a characteristic type of Old Believer church, and about "Old Believer Art Nouveau" - a very interesting architectural style that existed in 1905-1917 - in the "golden decade" of Old Belief.

Since the Old Believers were an illegal religion for a very long time, Old Believer churches were built in most of Russia only during short periods of cessation of persecution - in the 1770-1820s (when the Rogozhsky and Preobrazhensky villages appeared) and in 1905-1917, when it was officially proclaimed freedom of religion.
In other periods, there were more often either portable temples-tents (more typical for distant regions, such as Yaik), or prayer rooms - special rooms in private houses, not visible from the outside. And since the Old Believers were always strong in their merchants, in Moscow the prayer houses were located in the houses of merchants.

The first point of my trip was the Morozovskaya prayer house on Podsosnensky Lane, a 5-minute walk from the Kursky station towards the center.

The Morozov-Vikulov mansion was built in the 1830s, but now almost nothing remains of it except these gates (inside view):

The mansion itself was absorbed by a huge constructivist building, behind which the remains of an outbuilding were preserved, where the prayer house was located. It looks something like this:

The website of the Temples of Russia claims that in this outbuilding even the remains of the paintings of the prayer room have been preserved - but I have a hard time believing this. I don’t know anything about the possibility of getting inside.

Much more interesting is the Ryabushinskaya prayer house on Malaya Nikitskaya, a hundred meters from Nikitsky Gate Square (i.e. at the other end of the center). After all, it is located inside the Ryabushinsky mansion, built in 1900-1902 by Fyodor Shekhtel.

This house is, firstly, a reference example of modernism in Russia, and secondly, after the Revolution, the mansion was transferred to Maxim Gorky, after whose death it became his museum. This is how the mansion looks from the courtyard - the prayer room has three windows at the very top:

Amazingly beautiful modern details, surrealism of curved lines:

The museum is open from 10:00 to 18:00, but the most amazing thing is that it is FREE. More precisely, there is only a fee for photography, and in each room separately, and you have to pay for it from the caretaker. But the entrance to the museum itself is free, you just need to return your jacket to the cloakroom.
I have never seen such an interesting system anywhere else, and the museum is inexplicably popular among bourgeois tourists.

The prayer room, also decorated according to Shekhtel's design in 1902-1904, is now open to visitors as a separate part of the museum. You can admire the stunning modern paintings:

The paintings were restored in 1977-79 (it is significant that the Russian Orthodox Church officially annulled the curse on the Old Believers at the Council of 1977), and all the fragments now painted in yellow, were originally gilded. In the past, the prayer room had an iconostasis and utensils, but it has not yet been possible to recreate them. The prayer house was opened to visitors relatively recently, although they say that museum workers took people there privately before.

I wonder what had a greater influence on Shekhtel’s agreement to take part in the “illegal” construction: Ryabushinsky’s money or the understanding that the ban on Old Belief was absurd? One way or another, this prayer house was a secret for only about a year: in April 1905, the Old Believers received freedom of religion.

Outbuilding of the Ryabushinsky house:

A small lyrical digression: about the concentration of history in Moscow. In these two houses next to Ryabushinsky’s house (where, as was said, Gorky lived) lived Alexander Blok (on the left) and Alexey Tolstoy (on the right). I really hope that some unrecognized or undiscovered genius lives in the high-rise building in the background.

And opposite are the chambers of the 17th century, which will surprise no one in Old Moscow:

Now let's move again to the area of ​​the Kursk station, behind railway, to the old outskirts, now known as the Basmanny district of the Central District. Here, in a bizarre mixture of two-story houses and Brezhnev's high-rise buildings, 2 more unique churches are hidden - those very examples of “Old Believer Art Nouveau”.

The Resurrection Church in Tokmakov Lane, a 10-minute walk from Kurskaya, amazes with the originality of its forms:

It was built in 1907-1909. As already mentioned, 1905-1917 is the “golden decade” of the Old Believers. Having officially emerged from the shadows, the Old Believers began to make up for lost time, and among other things, active search forms for an Old Believer church. Absolutely crazy-looking modern churches were built - in Moscow, St. Petersburg, district Borovsk, provincial Vladimir, merchant Balakovo on the Volga, in the port of Rostov-on-Don and many other cities.
And the Resurrection Church in Tokmakov Lane, now located in the courtyard behind a high-rise building (from the lane itself the church is not visible at all, is located on the even side at the intersection with Deniskinsky Lane) - the oldest example of “Old Believer Art Nouveau”.

These churches are very varied in form, almost always stunningly dynamic, and simply take advantage of the modern style very well. In their principle, they seem to me even more interesting than the canonical churches of the Russian Orthodox Church of that time. If in the “patriarchal” churches of the early twentieth century one reads Rus' and Byzantium, then in the Old Believers - all those distant lands where they tried to settle for 200 years.
The Russian North, Kerzhenets, and Bukovina are visible in the Church of the Resurrection:

The church was recently returned to the Bespopov Pomeranians, and repairs are now underway. It stands in a narrow courtyard among high-rise buildings, and it is simply impossible to adequately photograph it.

A 20-minute walk from here (and 5 minutes from the Baumanskaya metro station) there is another modern church of the same crazy appearance - Pokrovskaya in Maly Gavrikov Lane, and in fact on Gavrikov Street, part of the Third Ring.

It was built in 1909-1911 by the architect Bondarenko, and it seems that this is the most original Russian temple of the early twentieth century in its appearance.
And in its appearance - Irgiz (Mechetnaya settlement, which received its name from the ruins of Horde mosques), the Baltic region and Dobrudzha.

A very unusual decoration for Russia - tiles and stained glass:

Surprisingly, the church has not yet been returned to the believers and is occupied by all sorts of organizations. But at least in a decent form, and not a ruin.

Many, seeing her, do not know what denomination she belongs to. But this is just a search for form. It’s amazing what Old Believer modernism would have developed into if not for the Revolution! Perhaps the Old Believer merchants would have invited Gaudi here.

And finally, the last, perhaps the most famous Old Believer church in Moscow - St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the Tverskaya Zastava.

Although its main advantages are that it is operational and located in an extremely visible place - near the Belorussky railway station.

This temple is much more trivial than the two shown above - the usual pseudo-Russian style. But extremely successful!

It was built in 1914-1916, and from a distance it looks like the 15th century.
This temple is extremely impressively located against the backdrop of the huge Business Center. Although this is not so strange - after all, the Old Believers were the best merchants in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Do you see the reflection of the cross in the window of a skyscraper? Many other amazing angles:

There are several more Old Believer churches in Moscow and the near Moscow region that were originally built as such. Some are operating, some are still closed, some have been transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church, but some churches of the Russian Orthodox Church are now listed as Old Believers.
Now my path is to the historical regions of residence of the Old Believers: Starodubye at the junction of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus; Kerzhenets in the Nizhny Novgorod Trans-Volga region, Irgiz between Samara and Saratov, Lithuania and Latgale - Catholic Latvia, Bukovina on the northern borders of Romania and Dobrudzha on the eastern ones... Well, I haven’t grown up to the Old Believer hermitages in Southern Siberia yet.
However, I already have a report about Starodubye - the oldest in my LJ, and therefore not the most successful. Most likely, in the near future I will try to re-upload it with new text and newly processed photographs.

P.S. It’s still great that you can make a full-fledged trip without leaving Moscow. And in all three posts, 37 photos each, it wasn’t intentional - it just coincided.

December 10th, 2014

We continue our review of Old Believer places in the Moscow region.
(First part- )
For starters, “Map of schismatic villages in the Moscow province”, 1871.

53. Temple in the name of St. vlmch. Demetrius of Solunsky in the village of Rakhmanovo
Mos. region, Pavlovo Posad district, village. Rakhmanovo

remains of a church, early 50s.

Nowadays, next to the place where the church was located, the Dmitrievskaya Chapel has been installed.

54.Church of the Archangel Michael in Chulkovo(non-circular)
Moscow region, Ramensky district, Chulkovo village

The community was officially registered in 1906. The prayer house existed until 1952, when it burned down and was never restored. Nowadays a memorial cross has been erected in its place.

A consecrated spring not far from the unpreserved church.

55.Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dulevo
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Likino-Dulevo

The wooden Old Believer church is a building in the pseudo-Russian style with a hipped dome and a hipped bell tower. Built in 1908-1914 instead of a prayer house in the village at the Kuznetsov porcelain factory, it belonged to the district community. Closed and demolished in 1934. A monument to Lenin was erected in its place.

The bell tower of the Intercession Church is visible from the edge.

56. Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Kurovskaya
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Kurovskoye, st. Pervomayskaya

A wooden cage building of simple architecture, built in 1905-1906 instead of the old prayer house. Belonged to a non-okrug community. Closed in 1937 and soon demolished.
The place where she was Old Believer Church.

57.Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Petrushino
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Petrushino village

Site of the former Old Believer Church

58. Shirinskaya Church of Demetrius of Thessalonica
Moscow region, Pavlovsky Posad, st. Uritsky, [near 32]
A wooden single-domed temple with a belfry was built with the help of K. G. Shirin in 1908, the domes were installed in 1912. The temple belonged to the community of Old Believers who accepted the District Message. Closed in 1941, weddings canceled. Occupied by the city military commandant's office, then by the radio club and the DOSAAF Civil Code. Demolished in 1988.

59.Church of Mikhail Malein in Timkovo
Moscow region, Noginsk district, Timkovo village

A wooden cage church in the pseudo-Russian style, built at the expense of A.I. Morozov. Closed at the turn of the 1920s-1930s, weddings were closed, occupied by a club. Currently devastated after the fire.

before the fire

60. Church of St. John the Evangelist in Baryshevo
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Baryshevo village
A small wooden building with a hipped roof, designed in the spirit of Art Nouveau. Built according to the 1910 project, it belonged to the Okrug community. All R. XX century closed, the log house was transported to Ilyinsky Pogost and used for new construction.

61. Prayer in Avsyunino
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Avsyunino village

A wooden prayer house of simple architecture, built in 1896, was later rebuilt. Closed in 1929 and soon demolished.

62. Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Antsiferovo
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Antsiferovo village
A wooden one-domed church in the pseudo-Russian style with a hipped bell tower, built according to the 1911 project. It belonged to the Okrug community. Closed in 1939, weddings canceled, occupied by school. In 1957 it was dismantled for new construction; the altar area, now attached to the village school, survived.
school on the site of the church.

63.Prayer in the village of Gora.
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Gora village (Davydovsky village)
wooden prayer house of the neo-okrug community, built in the 19th century. Burnt down in the 1930s.

64. House of prayer in the monastery near Gubino
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, near the village of Gubino
Wooden prayer house in the women's Old Believer monastery, located in the forest near the village of Gubino. The monastery was finally liquidated in the 1930s, the buildings were dismantled.

65. Prayer house of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Zevnevo(winter) and (summer)
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Zevnevo village
A wooden prayer house, built in 1912 to replace the old one. It had no special signs of church architecture; it served as a summer church for the district community. Closed in the 1930s, occupied by a granary, dismantled in the 1960s-1980s.

66. Prayer in Ionovo(Pomeranian)
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Ionovo village
Wooden prayer house of the Old Believers community of Pomeranian Marriage Consent. Closed in the 1930s, occupied by a club. Burnt down in the 1980s.

67. Church of Paraskeva (Friday) Great Martyr in Korovino
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Korovino village
A wooden meeting house converted into a church in the 1910s. The community was registered in 1910. Broken in mid. XX century The village also had a non-district community, whose prayer house, built in 1891, burned down in 1916.

68. House of prayer in Korotkovo
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Korotkovo village
Wooden Old Believer prayer house, built in the 19th century. Belonged to the non-okrug community. Closed in the 1930s, broken down in the 1960s.

69.Church in Kudykino
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Kudykino village
Wooden Old Believer church, built in the beginning. 20th century, probably instead of the old house of worship. Closed in 1931, later broken down.

70. House of prayer in Malkovo
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Malkovo village
Wooden prayer house of the district community, built in the 19th century. Closed in the 1930s, later broken down.

71.Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Pominovo
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Pominovo village
Wooden church of the district community. It was rebuilt in 1912 from an old prayer house, over which a quadrangle with a dome was built. Closed in 1941, dismantled in 1952-1953.

72. House of prayer in Ponarino
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Ponarino village
Wooden prayer house of the district community. A new building with a dome on the roof was built in the beginning. XX century

73.House of prayer in Ravenskaya
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Ravenskaya village
The wooden prayer house was allowed to be built in 1905. It belonged to the district community.

74.House of prayer in Stepanovka
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Stepanovka village
Wooden prayer house of the neo-okrug community, built in the 19th century. Closed at the end 1930s, later broken.

75.Church of Nikita the Great Martyr in Khoteichy
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, village. Hoteichi
A wooden Old Believer prayer house that belonged to the non-okrug community, renovated in 1892. Reconstructed into a church in the 1910s, consecrated in 1914. Closed in the 1930s, later broken down. A small non-okruzhnik community - apparently the last in the Moscow region - is intact in Khoteichy to this day.

76.Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Yuryatino
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Yuryatino village
A small wooden Old Believer church of the Okrug community, built in 1909 instead of a burnt prayer house. Broken in mid. XX century

77.Church in Yazvische
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Yazvischi village
The wooden church was founded in 1906, completed approx. 1910. Closed in the 2nd half. 1930s, later broken.

78.Church of the Exaltation Holy Cross of the Lord in Yakovlevskaya
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Yakovlevskaya village
Brief description Wooden prayer house of the district community, built in the beginning. XX century financed by F. E. Morozova (according to other sources, it was built on the basis of a building of the 19th century). It was a cage building with a large dome on the roof. Closed in 1939, broken down in the beginning. 1970s
the place where the church was located.

79. village of Semenovskoye
now Moscow, Leninsky and Lomonosovsky Prospekt

80. Prayer in the village of Orlovo
Now - Moscow, Solntsevo

83.Prayer in the village of Plaskinino.
Moscow region, Ramensky district, Plaskinino village
"Gzhel Bush"
A wooden prayer house of neo-okrug Old Believers, to which a stone bell tower was added in the 1910s. The chapel burned down in the 1930s, the bell tower was dismantled in the 1950s.

84. Church in Rechitsy.
Moscow region, Ramensky district, village. Rechitsa
"Gzhel bush" - http://rechitzkiy.narod.ru/text/old.html
Old Believer prayer house, supported by the Khrapunov merchants. no later than con. XVIII century non-circulators. The community was officially registered in 1907. The building was demolished in mid. XX century

85. Church of the Icon of the Mother of God of Vladimir in Ostashevo
Moscow region, Voskresensky district, With. Ostashevo
Prayer service of the Old Believers in wooden house, built in 1906 and with a dome added in 1911-1914. The community was registered in 1907. Closed in 1929, dismantled in 1938.

86. Church of the Archangel Michael in Taldom
Moscow region, Taldomsky district, Taldom
A small wooden church of the Old Believers-Priests, rebuilt after 1905 from an old prayer house. Divine services were stopped no earlier than the end. 1930s Currently, there is no Old Believer community in Taldom.

87. Prayer room in the Islavskoye estate.
Moscow region, Odintsovo district, Islavskoye. (Rublevskoe highway, near Gorki-10)
until 1682 the owner was St. Fedosya Prokopyevna Morozova.
At the beginning of the 20th century. The estate was bought by I.V. Morozov, a representative of the Morozov-“Vikulovich” line. He also owned a nearby stud farm for breeding Russian trotters.

88. Prayer room in the Ryabushinsky estate.
Moscow region Mytishchi, Alexandrovo estate.