Nicolo-Noble Temple

The first wooden St. Nicholas Church was mentioned in 1676. The now existing stone Church of the Nobility with the main throne in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was built in 1767 and the bell tower with it in 1805. In the temple there were two chapels: the left in the name of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God and the right – the apostles Peter and Paul.

There is information that during the Patriotic War, in the autumn of 1812, the famous Moscow architect M.F. Kazakov was buried in the walls of the Nikolo-Noble Church.

In 1866, a new iconostasis was installed in the temple of the famous Moscow master Galaction Lebedev.

In the Soviet years, the temporary governor of the Ryazan diocese, Bishop Mitrophan (Zagorsky), served in the church. After his removal from the Ryazan Kremlin. The temple was closed two years after his death in 1925. The bell tower was destroyed, and the temple building itself was rebuilt. In Soviet times it was used as a training center of a motor transport school.

The church was returned in 2008. Consecrated on May 22, 2009 on the day of memory of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker by Archbishop Paul of Ryazan and Kasimov. Restoration work is underway in the temple.