The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in the Cossack Sloboda
ooh Bolshaya Polyanka, 37, page 3, Moscow
Description:
On the site of the current church in the XVI century stood the wooden church of Flora and Lavra, the former center of the Kolomna Yamskaya Sloboda. At the end of the XVI century, the Yamskaya Sloboda was transferred to Zacepa, where a new church of the same name was built. In the Moscow chronicles of 1642, there is a mention of the church “The Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God and the Martyrs Flora and Lavra, in the old Kolomna Yamskaya Sloboda”. In 1657, the same church was mentioned under another name - "The Church of the Most Pure Virgin of the Assumption, which is in the Cossack Sloboda beyond the Moskva River." Apparently, at this time the church was not functioning, as it "stands without singing." The church was restored in 1662 as the Assumption Church in the Cossack Sloboda.
The one-headed stone temple of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos in the Cossack Sloboda was built in 1695-1697 at the expense of the sophomore V. F. Poltev. In 1723 the church was “renovated”. In 1768, through the efforts of G. Nesterov, the chapel of the Simeser Icon of the Mother of God appeared at the church, in 1797-1798 the church acquired a modern appearance: a refectory with two chapels appeared (Sedmiezersky and the icons of the Mother of God “Satisfy my sorrows”) and a new bell tower, made in the style of classicism. This construction was carried out at the expense of the widow of Major General P. I. Pozdnyakova.
During the fire of 1812, the entire interior of the temple burned out, but already in 1818 the temple was restored by the church head Nikita Karpyshev. In 1869-1872, at the expense of parishioners and church head D. P. Rogatkin, the decoration of the temple was made, in which the classic appearance of the refectory and the bell tower were somewhat distorted.
In 1922, the church was closed and it housed an archive and a printing house. Church decorations and utensils were seized from the temple. The head of the temple was demolished, the top of the bell tower and the house of parish were destroyed.
In 1970-1980 the temple was restored. At the end of 1990, the church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church and in 1994 services were resumed.
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