🏛 Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior on Peski

Спасопесковский пер., 4А

An 18th-century church in a quiet side street off the Arbat, the very one Polenov painted in "Moscow Courtyard".

The stone church was built in 1711 on the site of a wooden church of the streltsy settlement, known since 1642.
In the early 20th century the virtuoso bell-ringer Konstantin Saradzhev rang the bells in the bell tower.
The church was closed in 1932 and in the 1960s adapted as the puppet workshop of Soyuzmultfilm.
Ten bells were given to the church by the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater; they come from the demolished Strastnoy Monastery.
In 1891 a pseudo-Gothic gate was joined to the bell tower and became the main portal.

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