🏛 Church of St Catherine on Vspolye

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Karl Blank's Baroque church with a fence and gates at the end of Ordynka — rebuilt on Catherine II's orders.

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A wooden church was put up in the 16th century at the Yekaterininskaya linen-bleaching settlement, and rebuilt in stone in 1657.
In 1766–1775, on Catherine II's orders, the architect Karl Blank rebuilt the church in the late Baroque style.
In 1931 the church was closed; the building was occupied by a design bureau and the Grabar art workshop.
In 1992–2006 it was a representation church (podvorye) of the Orthodox Church in America.

Part of these routes

Ordynka to Vspolye: tiles, Baroque and Beauvais's rotunda