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      Meshchanskaya and Sukharevka: the mosque, Kazakov, Sheremetev

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      From Moscow's main mosque via Matvey Kazakov's church to Sheremetev's palace-almshouse and the Church in Listy on Sretenka.

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      1. 1
        🏛 Moscow Cathedral Mosque
        Выползов пер., 7
        Moscow's main mosque with a golden dome and minarets by Olimpiysky — a new building of 2015 on the site of the 1904 mosque.
        From Prospekt Mira, 5 minutes along Olimpiysky Prospekt. Look from outside: on Friday afternoon it's very crowded here.
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        Moscow Cathedral Mosque
        © MBH · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Moscow Cathedral Mosque
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Moscow Cathedral Mosque
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        • The first mosque was built here in 1904 on a plot donated by the merchant Habibullah Akbulatov and the townsman Sabirzyan Bakirov.
        • The old building was demolished in 2011, and the new one opened on 23 September 2015.
        • It is one of the largest and tallest mosques in Russia.
        • Since 1996 the Council of Muftis of Russia and the mufti's residence have been at the mosque.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Church of Metropolitan Philip in Meshchanskaya Sloboda
        ул. Гиляровского, 35
        Matvey Kazakov's neoclassical church on the spot where Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich met the relics of Metropolitan Philip from Solovki.
        Through Vypolzov and Gilyarovsky Street — 6 minutes. Look at Kazakov's rotunda from the corner.
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        Church of Metropolitan Philip in Meshchanskaya Sloboda
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        • On 9 July 1652, in a procession with the tsar, the relics of St Philip, brought by Nikon from Solovki, were met here.
        • A wooden cross was first put up at the meeting place, then a church.
        • In 1777–1788 the church was completely rebuilt to a design by Matvey Kazakov in the Moscow Neoclassical style.
        • The side chapels are consecrated in the names of Alexis the Man of God and Sergius of Radonezh.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Sheremetev Hospice (Strannoprimny Dom)
        Большая Сухаревская пл., 3
        A semicircular palace with a colonnade on the Garden Ring — Count Sheremetev's almshouse and hospital, today the main building of the Sklifosovsky Institute.
        Along Gilyarovsky and the Garden Ring — 12 minutes. The semicircular colonnade is visible from the square side; don't go inside — it's a hospital.
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        Sheremetev Hospice (Strannoprimny Dom)
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sheremetev Hospice (Strannoprimny Dom)
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Count Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev conceived an almshouse for 100 people and a free hospital for 50 beds in the early 1790s.
        • The charter was approved in 1803, and the house was formally opened on 28 June 1810.
        • Sheremetev built the house in memory of his wife, the former serf actress Praskovya Zhemchugova.
        • In 1923 the Sklifosovsky Institute of Emergency Care was opened on the basis of the hospital.
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        🏛 Church of the Trinity in Listy
        ул. Сретенка, 27/29, стр. 3
        An ornate 17th-century church on the corner of Sretenka and Sukharevskaya Square. "V Listakh" (in Sheets) — because lubok prints were sold on its fence.
        Across Sukharevskaya Square, at the corner of Sretenka. Picture the fence hung with lubok prints.
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        Church of the Trinity in Listy
        © krassotkin · CC BY 3.0
        • A wooden church is known here from 1632.
        • The stone church was built by the streltsy of Pushechnikov's regiment; it was consecrated in 1661.
        • The name "v Listakh" comes from print sellers who hung lubok "sheets" for sale on the church fence.
        • At first it was a cemetery church, and by the mid-17th century it became the streltsy regimental church.
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      9. 5
        ☕️ Natakhtari café on Sretenka
        ул. Сретенка, 24/2, стр. 1
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        Along Sretenka, 3 minutes. Khachapuri and Georgian lemonades.
        🍴 An inexpensive Georgian café near Sukharevskaya with a grill, open until midnight. What to order: khinkali (Georgian dumplings), khachapuri, shashlik, chakhokhbili, homemade lemonades.
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        • The café is named after the Georgian village of Natakhtari near Mtskheta, known for its spring water and lemonades.
        • The menu is Georgian classics: khinkali, khachapuri, grilled shashlik and lula kebab.
        • The café is open every day until midnight, and coffee is available to take away.

      ↩️ Getting back: from the café, 4 minutes back along Sretenka to Sukharevskaya metro

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