🏛 Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi

2-й Кадашёвский пер., 7/4, стр. 14

A Naryshkin-baroque church of 1687–1695 with five domes, white-stone ornament and a slender bell tower.

A Church of the Resurrection is first mentioned in this area in 1493, and early documents call it the church “on the Gryazi (mud)” because of the river's floods.
The present church was built with money from the Kadashi merchants Kondrat Dobrynin and his son Longin; the south apse and undercroft survive from its 1656 predecessor.
Researchers consider the church part of a major urban axis running from Ivan the Great via Kadashi to the Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye.
The open second-floor gallery originally went even around the apses, which is rare in church architecture.
In 1812 the French used the lower church as a stable, and after its closure in 1934 it housed a KGB archive and a sports club of a sausage factory.
From 1966 the building was occupied by the Grabar Restoration Centre; it was handed back to the Church on 1 December 2006.
In 2010 an attempt to demolish the neighbouring old houses for a new development sparked protests known as the “Battle of Kadashi”.