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      🏛 Church of St Nikita the Great Martyr on Staraya Basmannaya

      Старая Басманная ул., 16/1

      A tall church with a bell tower, to a design attributed to Dmitry Ukhtomsky, a model of Elizabethan Baroque.

      Church of St Nikita the Great Martyr on Staraya Basmannaya
      © Lodo27 from Moscow, Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
      • The first wooden church was ordered by Vasily III in 1519 at the place where the Vladimir Icon was seen off back to Vladimir.
      • The present church was consecrated in 1751 and has not been seriously rebuilt since.
      • The author is not known for certain: besides Ukhtomsky, Alexei Yevlashev and Karl Blank are named.
      • The parishioners decided to build a new church when their neighbors on Novaya Basmannaya got the Baroque Church of Sts Peter and Paul.
      • In the fire of 1812 neither the church nor the neighboring houses suffered.
      • In January 2025 Patriarch Kirill made the church the main church of the Investigative Committee.

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      • All day: Myasnitskaya, Chistye Prudy and Basmanny

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