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      🏛 Church of Elijah the Prophet in Ilyinskoye

      Красногорский округ, с. Ильинское, Ильинское ш.

      A baroque church of the 1730s at the former Romanov estate where Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and Elizabeth Feodorovna lived; the estate itself is closed, the church is open.

      • The village is first mentioned under the name Ilyinskoye in 1618, after the wooden Church of Elijah the Prophet.
      • The stone church was built in 1735; some local historians attribute the design to Alexey Evlashev.
      • The side chapels were added in 1818, and the low three-tier bell tower with a spire in 1828.
      • The church was closed in 1937, and services resumed in 1991.
      • The 10×7 m iconostasis is assembled from 500 porcelain parts to a design by the Gzhel artist Valentin Rozanov and was installed by 2005.
      • The icons for the porcelain iconostasis were painted by the Palekh masters Yuri Shchanitsyn and Vladimir Brovkin.

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      • Ilyinskoye and the Zadorozhny technology museum

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