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      🏛 Church of Elijah the Ordinary (Ilya Obydenny)

      2-й Обыденский пер., 6/3

      An old parish church in a lane between Ostozhenka and the embankment. "Obydenny" — according to tradition, the first wooden church was put up in a single day.

      Church of Elijah the Ordinary (Ilya Obydenny)
      © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • The stone church was built in 1702–1703 on the site of a wooden one.
      • The first church was probably built "obydenno", in one day, on a vow during a drought.
      • According to Avraamy Palitsyn's Tale, on 24 August 1612 Prince Pozharsky prayed at this spot before the decisive battle with the Poles.
      • The iconostasis preserves icons from the old wooden church, including a Saviour Not Made by Hands of 1675.

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      • Prechistenka's lanes: Obydensky, Mogiltsy and Vlasyevsky

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