🏛 Church of Saints Adrian and Natalia in Babushkin

Ярославское ш., 61, корп. 1

A Neo-Russian church of 1914–1916 that never closed, even in Soviet times.

The church's design was developed by the architect Vladimir Glazov and the engineer S. M. Fominsky, and construction was led by the architect Sergey Ilyinsky.
The money for construction — 15,000 rubles — was given by the merchant Alexander Ivanov; he also chose the dedication because he lived near another church of Adrian and Natalia, in Meshchanskaya Sloboda.
When the First World War began, donations dried up, and for some time the church stood without a roof and dome.
On 27 July 1924 Patriarch Tikhon served the liturgy here.
The building is a low domed rotunda of the Byzantine type on a square base, with references to Pskov architecture.
In Soviet years Muscovites came here to be baptized: no documents were required and the baptisms were not reported to workplaces.
In 1936–1943 the church belonged to the Renovationists and then returned to the Patriarchal Church.

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