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History of the Temple

Wooden Church of St. App. Peter and Paul in the Basmanny Captain's Settlement was founded in 1692 at the request of the steward and lieutenant colonel I.F. Bashev. In 1695, the wooden church was listed as newly built and taxed from the courtyards of Basmannaya Sloboda. By 1702, there were 114 households in the church parish.

In 1705, work began on the construction of a stone church. The wooden church was still functioning during the work, but nothing is known about its further fate. It should be noted that the reigning Emperor Peter I at that time actively contributed to the founding of churches in honor of his heavenly patron in Azov, Bryansk, Petrozavodsk, Poltava; the construction of St. Petersburg also began with the foundation of the wooden church of St. Peter and Paul.

Stone Church of St. App. Peter and Paul in Moscow was built according to the drawing of Peter I (“according to the drawing sent from the Sovereign’s village of Preobrazhenskoye”) with 2 thousand rubles granted by him. It is noteworthy that in total Peter I made eight drawings of future churches. Seven of them were built in St. Petersburg, and only one in Moscow (all eight drawings are kept in the repository of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg). We also note that at the end of the 17th - beginning of the 18th centuries. New trends have emerged in Russian architecture: especially close cultural and trade relations have developed between Russia and Holland - Peter I made his first trip abroad there. Peter brought many ideas from Holland, including architectural ones. Like the Sukharev Tower, the prototype of which was the Amsterdam City Hall, the Church of St. App. Peter and Paul became the embodiment of one of them.

From the very beginning, the work on the construction of the Church of St. App. Peter and Paul in Basmannaya Sloboda was entrusted to a brigade consisting of 19 serfs from the Yaroslavl province. These were “registered masons,” that is, professional builders registered with the state. The landowners regularly released “masons” to work on the “sovereign’s building.” The names of some of these 19: Andrei Kondratiev, Alexei Vasiliev, Ivan Yakovlev, Konon Nefediev, Philip Vasiliev are known from correspondence with the Ingermanland Chancellery, located in St. Petersburg. The correspondence mentions royal decrees (the earliest dated May 26, 1705), according to which “it was ordered in the Kapitanskaya and Novobasmannaya Sloboda, which is behind the Myasnitsky Gate, near the church stone building, which the church is being built according to a drawing sent from the Sovereign village of Preobrazhenskoye, the Supreme Apostle Peter and Paul, to be a mason for the Yaroslavl district of various landowners... until the completion of the church, and for other matters from that building those masons were not ordered...”

In 1708, an antimension was issued for the consecration of the throne in the lower church. It was built in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (in the personal poll book of 1722, the “Church of Peter and Paul, in the Kapitanskaya and Novobasmannaya Sloboda, is mentioned, under it is the lower church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, made of stone”).

In 1714, construction of the temple continued. There is a contract agreement concluded in May 1714 by the priest and church elder with the Yaroslavl and Kostroma peasant masons, who “contracted to build an addition to the previous stone structure at that church.” In all likelihood, most of the work was completed during the summer construction season. But further circumstances did not allow the construction of the temple to be completed.

On October 9, 1714, Peter I issued a decree banning stone construction in Moscow in connection with the transfer of the capital to St. Petersburg and the need for its rapid development. Church of St. App. Peter and Paul was on the list of Moscow buildings whose construction was suspended.

Three years later, in 1717, the headman and parishioners of the church reported to the Governing Senate that the church building was almost completed (only the spire that completed the temple and the arches above the porches were missing). But since stone construction in Moscow was prohibited, they asked the Senate to allow the construction to be completed: “Last year 1714, according to the decree of the Tsar’s Majesty and according to the drawing submitted by His Majesty’s own hand, we were ordered ... to build a church behind the Mesnitsky Gate, behind Zemlyanoy Gorod, that in the Kopitanskaya and Novobasmannaya settlements, which were previously in that place in the name of the Saints Apostle Peter and Paul, and that church according to the drawing from His Majesty, both the lower and the upper, were built, and imperfectly: on top there is a spitzer and on the sides above the porches there are no vaults, which is why that church is in complete ruin, and according to His Tsar’s Majesty’s decree, it is forbidden to build a stone structure in Moscow, and for this reason they are not allowed to complete that church without a decree sent from Your Excellency.” In response to the request, a Senate decree was sent to Moscow for permission to complete the construction: “... the stone church in the name of the Saints Apostle Peter and Paul, if it is planned to build a stone structure in addition to the stone structure, will be completed...”.

In 1719 the church building was completed. The temple turned out to be two-tiered, with an open arched gallery in the lower tier and a walkway on the upper. Around the church there was a graveyard surrounded by a fence.

In July 1720, an iconostasis was ordered for the upper church, about which a contract record has been preserved. For the “carved iconostasis work” they hired “the princess and Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseevna (sister of Peter I, by that time deceased), the rector Trofim Romanov, son of Zherin, and the quitrent peasant of the Kolyazin monastery, the rector Andrei Gavrilov, son of Ushakov.” They undertook to “build carpentry and carved iconostasis in that church according to their design, namely: royal doors and a canopy of carved grass, and instead of pillars there are carved fruits...”. Also, make carved brackets and cornices in the “festive belt, and in the apostolic belt and in the prophetic belt there are also carvings instead of pillars..., and on top of those belts - a crucifix and with the accompanying ones, carved in three faces in the same carpentry,” and, in addition, , arrange carved choirs and pulpits.

In May 1737, the church was damaged as a result of one of the devastating fires in Moscow, which was a terrible and constant disaster for the residents of the city with wooden buildings. This time, more than 11 monasteries, 102 churches, more than 2.5 thousand households, and over 486 shops burned down. Church of St. App. Peter and Paul suffered less damage than other shrines: the railings, locker and stairs on the bell tower burned down, and the wooden fence around the church burned out. After restoration work by the middle of the 18th century. In Novobasmannaya Sloboda, an architectural complex has developed, consisting of a temple and a bell tower, topped with spiers and connected by an open white stone staircase leading to the upper temple and to the second tier of the bell tower.

In 1770, priest Alexey Ioannov with the parish people and investors petitioned the Governing Synod to build a chapel. They complained that in winter in the upper church of St. App. Peter and Paul, “early services are corrected with considerable difficulty, and they rarely occur due to frosts and blizzards.” “To correct the early services in the winter,” they asked to build a chapel in the porch at the lower church of St. Nicholas. The dean of the Sretensky Forty, the Trinity Church, Priest John Ignatiev, and the Spasskaya Church in Pushkari, Priest Stefan Vasilyev, examined the place for the new chapel “whether there would be oppression and darkness in that porch” and found it convenient. After which Archbishop Ambrose gave permission to build a new chapel in the lower church in the name of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was built south of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, at the western doors. At the same time, it was supposed to “make a new window and a bright door opposite it” for better lighting. In 1772, the new chapel of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was consecrated by Archimandrite Nikon of the Sretensky Monastery.

The territory on which the Church of St. stood. App. Peter and Paul, retained the ancient suburban structure and was occupied by highly elongated building blocks, separated by alleys parallel to Novaya Basmannaya Street. The block in which the church was located was divided into two parts by a longitudinal lane. By the 1770s the longitudinal lane became part of the philistine courtyards and remained on church land as a passage through the churchyard. The territory of the church with the graveyard and the clergy yards was already located within the boundaries of modern numbers 11 on Novaya Basmannaya Street and 6 on Ryazansky Lane. The five courtyards of the church clergy (priest, deacon, sexton, sexton and mallow maker) were areas stretched from the church graveyard to the alley. Wooden residential buildings were oriented with their main end facades towards the church. In the depths of the courtyards there were wooden outbuildings and gardens.

According to the “clergy register” for 1775 - a reporting statement annually sent by the priest to the Spiritual Consistory - in total, 391 males and the same number of females lived in the Peter and Paul parish of the Sretensky Forty. Among the parishioners who signed the statement were eminent citizens: “Dowager Countess Ekaterina Ivanovna Shuvalova, Chief General Vasily Ivanovich Chulkov, Dowager General Marfa Vasilievna Balk, Brigadier Prince Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn, Colonel Alexey Andreevich Dumashev.” Some of them: A. I. Shiryaeva, M. V. Balk, S. A. Demidova, E. S. Gendrikova, E. I. Shuvalova, had their own home churches, which were part of the parish of the Church of Sts. App. Peter and Paul.

In 1812, during the Napoleonic invasion, more than half of the 300 Moscow churches were damaged by fire. Church of St. App. Peter and Paul on Novaya Basmannaya was plundered and was listed among those burned. At the Red Gate, the French made a shooting target out of church images. The enemy burned the wooden houses of the priest and deacon located on church land. In 1813, among 15 other Moscow churches, the Peter and Paul Church received 1,500 rubles from funds donated by the Kostroma nobility “to repair churches destroyed by the enemy.” The money was used "to repair the roof on the refectory and the bell tower, as well as the stairs leading to the upper church."

After the fire of 1812, according to the “projected” plan of the city of Moscow, the area was subject to urban planning regulation. Modern Basmanny Lane was supposed to be “straightened” by cutting off the church territory. The settlement of the lanes was limited to the partial alignment of the red lines. From that time until 1917, the boundaries of the church property remained unchanged.

In 1825, there was a need to repair the open white stone staircase (early 18th century), which had “become dilapidated from time and moisture,” leading to the upper tier of the church. A covered passage was built between the church and the bell tower; instead of a stone staircase, a cast iron staircase was installed.

In 1842, in the lower church of St. Nicholas, according to the design of the architect Stepan Petrovich Melnikov, instead of the old iconostasis, made in the Baroque style of the early 18th century, which had fallen into disrepair, a new iconostasis was built. At the same time, wall painting in the lower church was resumed: the faces, “faded” from time to time, were covered with new paints.

The church building suffered greatly from dampness. Construction work had to begin again. It was they (1856-1868) that became a significant stage in the formation of the current appearance of the temple. On the initiative of the church elder, hereditary honorary citizen Sergei Dmitrievich Shiryaev and with donations from a parishioner of the temple - Moscow merchant of the 3rd guild Andrei Afanasyevich Zalogin, work began on rebuilding the building. It lasted 12 years and was carried out under the supervision of the architect Nikolai Ilyich Kozlovsky. First of all, it was necessary to expand the temple: the old walls of the galleries were completely dismantled and folded in new places. At the same time, the galleries, larger in size than the previous ones, were continued, surrounding the altar, and included the previously constructed covered staircase. The new facades were built while preserving the original style of Peter the Great's time. In the newly built premises, two chapels were built: on the south side - in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Assuage my sorrows”, on the north - in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Vladimir”. The stoves and window frames were repaired, the bell tower was repaired, and in 1868 the “outside” of the church was repaired.

The archive preserves the case of awarding the merchant Zalogin a gold medal on the Vladimir ribbon. In addition to 11,000 rubles in silver for the renovation of three iconostases, he donated another 11,000 rubles in silver for other needs of the temple: the bulkhead of the gallery walls, the installation of a new floor, new stoves and “painting” of the walls, which amounted to half of the total amount spent on the renovation of the temple. As a result of reconstruction, the temple acquired the appearance that can be seen in photographs of the second half of the 19th - first half of the 20th centuries. It turned into one of the most beautifully designed churches in Moscow, and its rector Pyotr Matveevich Ternovsky became the head of the Peter and Paul Deanery of the Sretensky Forty. On the combined plots of the deacon and sexton, the buildings of a brick church almshouse and wooden sheds and cellars were built.

In 1897, in the lower floor of the bell tower, a room was built “for the placement of the dead, brought by their relatives, the Peter and Paul parish parishioners for the period after death until the funeral service and burial.” At the same time, the window facing Novaya Basmannaya was supposed to be rebuilt into a door “without any changes in size or shape.”

The new government established in Russia as a result of the 1917 revolution deprived religious organizations of legal and civil rights. Legislative acts of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) and the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) were aimed at the destruction of the Russian Orthodox Church. In accordance with the decrees of the Soviet government, temple buildings began to be considered the property of the state and could be transferred for use to a religious community - a group of believers registered with local authorities. However, church real estate was subject to confiscation in favor of the state: residential buildings, retail premises, buildings of almshouses, schools, shelters and hospitals, maintained mainly at the expense of parishes and their charitable institutions.

On January 23, 1919, an agreement (the second in a row) was concluded between the Orthodox community at the Church of Sts. App. Peter and Paul with the Moscow Council, according to which the community of believers accepted for unlimited free use the 2-story building of the church itself with liturgical objects according to a special inventory. At the same time, icons and church utensils from the abolished house churches were transferred to the temple: from the house of Prince Golitsyn, from the Mansbach gymnasium and several icons from the Ryazan electric tram park. Later, the property of the abolished church of St. was also transferred to the temple according to the inventory. Iannuaria in the former Reserve Palace (icons, gospels, crosses).

After the revolution, the Moscow Theological Academy continued its work for some time in the crypt of the Church of Peter and Paul on Novaya Basmannaya, which was called the “Podbell Academy.” Some Moscow priests wore the badge of a candidate of theology, received there. There were several such candidates for theology at the “podbell” Theological Academy in Moscow. Its rector was Bishop Bartholomew (Remov).

In 1921, the Peter and Paul Church was robbed. Lamps, altar crosses, and tabernacles were stolen. This event was a reason for cavils against believers. At the end of 1923, the Administrative Department of the Moscow City Council terminated the agreement with the parish council under the pretext that the community did not take good enough care of the safety of the property transferred to the church. The real reason for the termination of the agreement was the support of the believers of Patriarch Tikhon and their refusal to recognize the Renovationist Church. In January 1924, the Church of Sts. App. Peter and Paul were handed over to the Renovationists. At the end of January 1924, the so-called “Tikhonov” group appealed to the People’s Commissariat of Justice with a complaint. The letter said that “we all earn our bread through hard work, most of our group are simple manual workers. The group refuses to recognize the renovationist movement, but wants to pray in the old way.” The Moscow Council decided to transfer the lower church to the Renovationists, and the upper one to the “Old Church members.” Only in the summer of 1924 did a service in the upper church of Sts. App. Peter and Paul resumed. Authorities subsequently made two attempts to close the church. In November 1929 - among 15 churches - to use the building for grain warehouses. But then the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee decided: “to refrain from closing...”. And in 1932 - to transfer the temple premises to the Museum of Labor Protection. But even then the church was not closed.

The temple was closed in 1935 by decree of the Presidium of the Moscow Soviet of March 11. The church building was transferred to the Moscow Regional Police Department for the storage of military and economic property. A wooden barracks for the Geodesy plant were built on the temple grounds, and in 1940 a kindergarten was built. In 1949, the church almshouse was built on two floors. The building housed apartments for employees of the Zheleznodorozhny District Executive Committee and the Metropolitan Facilities Service. In 1959, by decision of the Moscow City Council, the temple building was transferred to the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute "Geophysics". The space of the upper, Peter and Paul and lower, St. Nicholas churches was divided into small offices where the workplaces of VNII employees were located.

In 1992, by order of the Moscow Government (No. 1189-RP dated May 15, 1992), the Church of St. App. Peter and Paul returned to the believers. The minor consecration took place on the feast of Epiphany, December 19, 1994. The first patronal feast was celebrated in the same year.

In 2000, to the Church of St. App. Peter and Paul in Novaya Basmannaya Sloboda, a small wooden church-chapel in the name of St. ap. and Evangelist Luke in the village. Kupavne, located next to the naval hospital. The consecration of the temple by a small priestly order took place on the Feast of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on October 14, 2000. In 2014, the church-chapel of St. ap. Luki in the village. Kupavna was separated into an independent parish.

Currently, restoration work is ongoing in the temple.

The spire of this church is clearly visible from afar: because of it, it is so different from a traditional Orthodox church that it can easily be mistaken for a Lutheran church, moved to Moscow from Holland or Germany. But if you know who exactly gave it such an unusual appearance, then the appearance of Western European motifs becomes understandable and logical.

In the second half of the 17th century, the area of ​​Novaya Basmannaya Street was inhabited by officers of foreign regiments, which is why it received the name Captain’s Settlement. Since most of its inhabitants professed Catholicism and Protestantism, there was no need for an Orthodox church for a long time. The wooden church was built only in 1692–1695, but it did not last long: already in 1705, work began on the construction of a stone building. Perhaps the foreign origin of the inhabitants indirectly contributed to the formation of an unusual type of new temple for Russia. But the following fact was decisive: Peter I, who was traveling through Novaya Basmannaya Street to Nemetskaya Sloboda, drew attention to the construction.

It is believed that the tsar personally created the blueprint for the new temple, consecrated in honor of his patron saint, and also donated 2,000 rubles from his personal funds for the construction, which was recorded in documents of that time. The implementation of the royal will was carried out by the architect I.P. Zarudny. The temple received a vertical structure, strengthened by the use of a spire, as well as symmetry of the main part - its western vestibule and the altar apse on the second tier are equal in volume. The decor of the facades is quite modest, the upper temple is surrounded by a walkway, the gallery of the lower temple was previously open.

The lower church in the name of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul was consecrated in 1708, and the upper one, in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, only in 1723 - the delay was caused by the suspension of stone construction in Moscow. The work was completed by architect I.F. Michurin. Subsequently, the Peter and Paul Church ended up at the top, and St. Nicholas Church at the bottom. Initially there was no bell tower at the church, since the belfry was located directly on the dome. But in 1745, according to the design of the architect K.I. Blanca, to the west of the temple, a four-tiered bell tower was built, which received a richer decor than the church itself.

To the east of the temple there is a fence with iron bars in the form of bending plant stems. However, it appeared in this place only 50 years ago - before that it could be seen on Bolshaya Spasskaya Street, around the Church of the Transfiguration in Spasskaya Sloboda. After the demolition of the latter in 1937, the gratings were preserved, and in the 1960s they were moved to Novaya Basmannaya. Another “transferred” object is a fragment of a 19th-century tombstone, which turned out to be built into the street curb opposite the entrance to the church.

After the revolution, the temple passed into the hands of renovationists, who took a hostile position towards Patriarch Tikhon, and in 1934 services there ceased. The building was first used as a police warehouse, then it was occupied by the Geophysics Research Institute, as a result of which the historical layout was lost, the church space was partitioned into work rooms, the interior was destroyed (only the cast-iron staircase between the lower and upper churches was preserved). Externally, however, the temple was restored in the 1960s, and the spire and some other details that were lost in the 19th century were returned to it. In 1992, the temple building was transferred to the community of believers, and two years later services were resumed there. Restoration continues today; access to the upper temple is still closed. In 2008, a temple icon of the apostles Peter and Paul, dating from the beginning of the 18th century, with a picturesque depiction of the church on Novaya Basmannaya, was discovered in a private collection. In 2010, after restoration, the image again took its place in the temple.

Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul in Basmannaya Sloboda - Orthodox Church of the Epiphany Deanery of the Moscow City Diocese, located on the corner of Novaya Basmannaya Street and Basmanny Lane.

The existing church building was built in 1705-1723 under the direction of architects Ivan Zarudny And Ivan Michurin, bell tower - in 1745-1746 according to the project Carla Blanca.

The appearance of the temple is unique: it is a rather rare example of Peter the Great’s Baroque for Moscow, inspired by European architectural forms. The temple is of the “octagon-on-quadrangle” type, built on a high basement, its design is quite laconic: the facades are decorated with rustication, pilasters and cornices with denticles (“crackers”), as well as window casings of unusual shape; the top is topped with a spire. The main volume is connected by a passage to a magnificent three-tiered bell tower, the rich decor of which seems to be contrasted with the prosaic design of the temple: richly decorated with columns, pilasters, decorative niches and ledges, with an unusual finish, it has an elegant silhouette and looks very impressive from the perspective of the street. The temple is separated from the sidewalk by a forged baroque lattice from the mid-18th century, originally made for the church on Bolshaya Spasskaya Street, but moved here after its demolition during the Soviet years.

In the church, altars are consecrated in honor of the apostles Peter and Paul, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the icon of the Mother of God “Quiet My Sorrows” and the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God.

History of the temple

The name of the Peter and Paul Church - in Basmannaya Sloboda (in Novaya Basmannaya Sloboda) - is associated with its location on the territory of the settlement of the same name. At the end of the 17th century, officers and soldiers of foreign regiments were stationed here, so the settlement was also called Kapitanskaya (this was reflected in the name of the temple).

The Church of Peter and Paul in Kapitanskaya Sloboda was founded in 1692. Its first wooden building did not stand for so long: already in 1705, instead of it, under the leadership of the architect Ivan Zarudny, they began to build a stone one. Construction was carried out according to the personal decree of Peter I and, as the urban legend says, according to his own drawings and drawings; Whether this is true or not is unclear, but it is known that the emperor was one of the donors of the temple and donated 2,000 rubles for its construction. On August 31, 1708, the throne of Peter and Paul was consecrated in the lower church; in 1714 they began to build the upper temple, but the work had to be curtailed due to a ban on stone construction in Moscow: in order to quickly turn St. Petersburg into an exemplary European city, Peter I issued the “Decree on the Prohibition of Stone Construction,” according to which the construction of stone buildings was allowed only in St. Petersburg . The construction of the temple was completed only in 1723, already under the leadership of the architect Ivan Michurin.

In 1745-1746, a bell tower was built according to the design of Karl Blank, and the Peter and Paul Church acquired modern forms, but the decorative design in those years was different from the modern one. In the mid-19th century, the church was renovated under the supervision of the architect Nikolai Kozlovsky: thrones in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the icon of the Mother of God “Quench My Sorrows” were placed in the lower church, and the throne in honor of the Apostles Peter and Paul was moved to the upper one. The facades of the building received a new decorative design that has survived to this day.

The Soviet period in the history of the temple began with intrigue: in 1922 it was captured by renovationists; The Renovationist movement arose in Orthodoxy after the Revolution of 1917; their goals were the democratization of church governance and the modernization of worship. In 1931, the Peter and Paul Church became the cathedral of the First Hierarch of Orthodox Churches in the USSR (a non-canonical church title that existed in Renovationism), Metropolitan Vitaly Vvedensky, and also housed the Renovationist Holy Synod and the Theological Academy. However, already in 1934 the temple was closed by the authorities, and the building was converted into a warehouse, and since 1970 it has housed the Geophysics Research Institute, for the needs of which the interior of the temple is divided into several additional floors.

In 1960, the temple was restored, however, its original appearance was destroyed: a new finish and spire were installed on the building.

In 1992, the temple building was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church.

Temple of the Supreme Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Basmannaya Sloboda is located at Novaya Basmannaya Street, 11. You can get to it on foot from the metro station "Red Gate" Sokolnicheskaya line.

Address: st. Novaya Basmannaya, building 11

The church we are going to talk about today is very remarkable for one thing. But more on that later.
This church is called the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul. With the obligatory clarification – “on Novaya Basmannaya”. And with one more clarification - “under the ringing”, from which it follows that the bells were hung not on a separate bell tower, but directly in a drum above the church building itself. Such churches were also called “like the bells.”

And here is the peculiarity of this church, indicated on the nameplate attached to the wall: “Built according to the drawing of Peter I in 1705 -1723.”
In total, Peter I made eight drawings of future churches. Seven of them were built in St. Petersburg, and only one was built in Moscow, which is what we are talking about. All eight drawings of the emperor are now in the repository of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg.

Previously there was a wooden church here, but it was replaced with a stone one. And they built not only according to the emperor’s drawings, but also with his money.
The church belongs to a very small group of churches in Moscow, clearly gravitating towards Western European forms. And it is considered a striking example of the style known as “Petrine Baroque”.

True, in 1745, after a fire that damaged the belfry, a bell tower was built nearby.
Which, in turn, is also considered a striking example, but of the Moscow architectural school of the mid-18th century. It is possible that this is the very first building in time, which became a model for similar buildings.

The temple fence, built in 1774, is also exceptionally beautiful. The magnificent wrought iron grille amazes with its openwork floral patterns.
In general, no matter which way you approach it, it’s an amazing temple.

Alas, this temple was closed in the early 30s of the 20th century. However, they did not destroy it at all. The building was used for various purposes, but survived, and in the 90s the temple building was returned to the church.
The interior decoration, of course, has not been preserved. But on the other hand, although in very poor condition, the Icon of the Holy Chief Apostles Peter and Paul has been preserved. In fact, it is the only shrine that remains from the previous pre-revolutionary decoration of the temple.

It was restored and on the day of the patronal feast of the holy supreme apostles Peter and Paul, July 12, 2010, it was returned to this unusual and beautiful temple.

Contacts: Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul in Basmannaya Sloboda

Address: st. Novaya Basmannaya, building 11

Nearest streets and metro stations:
Garden named after Bauman (Novaya Basmannaya St.) (151m)
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Church of Peter and Paul on Novaya Basmannaya "under the ringing"[security board]

Novaya Basmannaya st., 11

“It has been documented since 1695, when it was listed as “newly built.” “At the end of the 17th century. A wooden church was built and replaced in 1708-1713. stone, built by the architect I.P. Zarudny “according to the personal decree of the Tsar’s Majesty Peter I and according to the drawing given by His Majesty’s own hand” (drawing).”

“Constructed at the request of the steward Ivan Fedorovich Basov by parishioners, 2000 rubles were granted by Peter I. Renovated in 1856.”

“The wooden church of Peter and Paul in the Kapitanskaya Sloboda began to be built in 1692. The stone church began to be built in 1705, on August 31, 1708, an antimension was issued for the throne of Peter and Paul, which was probably located below. The upper church began to be built in 1714, but due to the decree prohibiting stone construction, it was consecrated only in 1723 - about which there was an inscription on the ciborium of the upper Peter and Paul Church. A baroque iconostasis from 1723 was preserved inside it. It is possible that the architect was I. Zarudny. The current bell tower was built in 1745-1746. In 1772, the warm chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin was consecrated on the right side of the lower porch, which was later abolished. In the middle of the 19th century, the entire space under the upper porch was included in the lower church of St. Nicholas, at which the chapel of the icon of the Mother of God “My Soothing” was consecrated on November 23, 1856. sorrow" at the expense of Zalogin and Our Lady of Vladimir at the expense of Shiryaev. At the same time, the tops of the temple and the bell tower were changed."

18th century fence moved in 1966 from the destroyed center. The Savior of the Transfiguration in Spasskaya [protection board].

"On July 17, 1891, Sergei Dmitrievich Shiryaev, the former Moscow mayor, died at the age of 82. He was the church warden of the Church of Peter and Paul on N. Basmannaya for 35 years. Under him, the church was expanded, houses were bought for the clergy. The deceased for his labors for the church did not want earthly rewards - may the Lord reward him with His great mercy."

Then there was a warehouse inside, and trading stalls on the gallery. Since the 1970s The All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Geophysical Research Methods (SRI "Geophysics") was located here. Overlappings have been made for additional floors. In the 1960s The building was restored, and the completion and spire were installed new, in the “Dutch taste.” Since then, repairs have not been carried out for a long time and the temple has become very dilapidated. The crosses are broken. The building is under state protection under number 150. By 1990, the main temple was again externally repaired. At the entrance to the church, a piece of an old tombstone is blasphemously inserted into the street curb.

"In 1992, the temple was returned to believers." The minor consecration took place on Epiphany 1994. “The first patronal feast was celebrated in the same year.”