🏛 Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Krylatskoye

ул. Крылатские Холмы, 12

A small 19th-century brick church on top of a hill with a panorama of the Moskva River floodplain and Strogino.

According to the chronicle, in 1554 Ivan the Terrible came to the consecration of the wooden church in Krylatskoye.
The stone church was built from 1862 to 1868 to a design by R. T. Vaudot, and the bell tower, designed by A. N. Stratilatov, was finished in 1877.
In 1941 the bell tower was destroyed by anti-aircraft gunners so it would not serve as a landmark for German aircraft.
When the village of Krylatskoye was demolished in the 1970s, the church was the only building left standing.
The original icon of the Rudnenskaya Mother of God was stolen and burned in 1936; the church keeps a copy from the early 20th century.
The church was returned to the Church in 1989, and the bell tower was rebuilt in the 1990s.

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