🏛 Trinity Church in Troitskoye-Golenishchevo

Мосфильмовская ул., 18А

A five-domed mid-17th-century church — all that remains of the country estate of the Moscow patriarchs.

The stone church was built in 1644–1645 to a design by the Nizhny Novgorod architect Antipa Konstantinov.
It is a tented church — the kind built until 1653, when Patriarch Nikon banned tented roofs.
In the late 14th century, at the confluence of the Setun and Ramenka, Metropolitan Cyprian had a country residence here.
In 1812 Napoleon's soldiers made a stable in the church, and the old iconostasis was lost in a fire.
After the closure in 1939 the iconostasis was taken by Sergey Eisenstein for filming "Ivan the Terrible" — it was never returned.
In Soviet years the church housed a warehouse of a cardboard factory, State Radio and TV offices, and a waste paper collection point.
According to legend, the huge oak by the Ionin spring was planted by Metropolitan Jonah himself; it was cut down for firewood in the winter of 1941.