🏛 Church of the Sign of the Mother of God in Khovrino

Фестивальная ул., 77

An estate church of 1868–1871 designed by Mikhail Bykovsky.

The church was commissioned by the factory owner Evgraf Molchanov, who bought the former Golovin estate in 1860; it was founded in 1868 and consecrated in 1871.
Molchanov died a year before the end of construction, and his widow took care of the interior decoration.
In a small church Bykovsky combined Moscow Baroque with the Italian Renaissance; contemporaries praised the mosaic floor and the marble iconostasis.
The church was closed in 1939; during the war there was a hospital here, and from 1960 the premises of a cooperative of the blind.
The church was returned to believers in 1991, and the upper Znamenie church has been active again since 1997.
One of the side chapels is consecrated in the name of the martyr Evgraf — namesake of the church's builder Evgraf Molchanov.

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