Church of the Icon of the Mother of God from Kazan in Uskoye
The Church of the Icon of the Mother of God from Kazan zu Uskoye ( Russian Храм Казанской иконы Божией Матери в Узком ) is a 17th century Russian Orthodox church in Moscow's Jassenewo district in the southwestern administrative district . It is subordinate to the Patronage of Our Lady of Kazan and is located in the area of the Uskoye homestead .
description
The church was built in the Russian architectural style of the Naryshkin Baroque . The five-tower church is cruciform in plan. It is based on the cardinal points. The building has a main tower and four side towers, each with onion hoods . All four side towers are the same height. The main tower is a little higher and its hood is gold-plated. The western tower serves as a bell tower.
history
In the 17th century there were two small, identically built wooden Kazan churches in Uskoye. The first was burned down by a lightning strike in 1665, the second was dismantled in order to build the present stone church building. The stone church was built by order of the boyar Tikhon Nikitich Streschnyew, the owner of Uskoye. Construction began in 1692 or 1693. In 1697 the church was completed. The architect is unknown. The church was closed to worship services under Soviet rule in 1930. The Uskoye estate was handed over to the USSR Academy of Sciences and is still used as a sanatorium today. The church building was used as a repository for the book collection of the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION) . There were millions of books there, including libraries, which the Soviet Union carried away from Germany as spoils of war after the end of the war in 1945 . There was a restoration in the 1970s, where the old onion hoods from the 18th century were replaced by hoods with a different design.
In 1990 the church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church . The book collection was relocated from 1990 to 1992 and was partially lost in the 2015 fire at the Academy of Sciences .
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Coordinates: 55 ° 37 ′ 18 ″ N , 37 ° 32 ′ 11.9 ″ E