🏛 Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God in Medvedkovo

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A tented church of 1634–1635 on the former estate of Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, on the Yauza bank at the mouth of the Chermyanka.

The church was conceived as a smaller version of the Intercession Cathedral on the Moat — St Basil's — and became one of Moscow's last single-tent churches.
Before the stone building a wooden tented church stood here, for which Pozharsky cast a bell in memory of the liberation of Moscow from the Poles.
The names of the first side chapels are linked to Novgorod, where Pozharsky served as governor in 1628–1630.
In 1685 the village went to Prince Vasily Golitsyn, favorite of Tsarevna Sophia; at his order the iconostasis was made in 1687–1688 with the participation of Karp Zolotaryov.
The church has never been closed — partly because in the 1930s Medvedkovo was not yet part of Moscow.
The height of the tent equals the height of the entire lower part of the building — hence the feeling of a rapid ascent.
In the 1970s the restoration was led by Nikolay Nedovich: the tent's late metal roof and windows were removed, restoring the church's original look.