🏛 Church of St Demetrius of Thessalonica in Blagusha

ул. Ибрагимова, 6А

A brick church in the Russian style, built in 1909–1911 to a design by Nikolay Orlov.

The main money for the church — about 100,000 rubles — was bequeathed by the honorary citizen Dimitry Ermakov in honor of his patron saint.
The church held up to 3,000 worshippers, and its construction cost almost 164,000 rubles.
The church was consecrated on 29 June 1911 by Metropolitan Vladimir of Moscow.
In 1931 the parish was closed and the building was given to the NKVD for a precious metals processing plant: smelting furnaces were installed in the altar.
The Soviet reconstruction deprived the church of its domes and the upper tiers of the bell tower — it was considered one of the most destroyed in Moscow.
Crosses were returned to the church on 17 November 1991, and services at the main altar resumed in the fall of 2001.

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