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      Tatar Sloboda: from Chernigovsky to Vishnyaki

      ⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 3.7 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      An hour in Zamoskvorechye away from Pyatnitskaya: a 17th-century church in a lane, Moscow's oldest mosque with Tukay and a church that never closed under the Soviets.

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        🏛 Church of Sts Michael and Theodore of Chernigov
        Черниговский пер., 3
        A small 17th-century church with a tented bell tower in Chernigovsky Lane — steps from busy Pyatnitskaya, next to the Church of John the Baptist under the Pine Grove.
        From Novokuznetskaya, 5 minutes along Pyatnitskaya and into Chernigovsky Lane. Nearby, across the lane, is the Church of John the Baptist under the Pine Wood.
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        Church of Sts Michael and Theodore of Chernigov
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Church of Sts Michael and Theodore of Chernigov
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church is known from 1625; it was rebuilt in stone in 1675 with funds from the merchant's wife Iuliania Malyutina.
        • Here, at the Church of John the Baptist under the Pine Grove, under Ivan the Terrible, the relics of Prince Michael of Chernigov and his boyar Theodore were received.
        • In Soviet times the building held warehouses and flats; it was restored in 1977.
        • Since 2010 the church has housed the Church-wide Postgraduate School of Cyril and Methodius.
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        🏛 Church of the Archangel Michael in Ovchinniki
        Средний Овчинниковский пер., 7
        A 17th-century church in the former Ovchinnaya Sloboda, where sheepskins were dressed — among quiet lanes between Pyatnitskaya and Sadovnicheskaya.
        Across Pyatnitskaya and Ovchinnikovsky Lanes — 7 minutes. A quiet courtyard away from Pyatnitskaya.
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        Church of the Archangel Michael in Ovchinniki
        © Sergey Rodovnichenko from Moscow, Russia · CC BY-SA 2.0
        • The church was built in the first half of the 17th century in the Ovchinnaya Sloboda; at first the main altar was dedicated to the Intercession.
        • Originally it was a small quadrangle with three domes above a pyramid of kokoshniks.
        • In the second half of the 17th century the refectory was enlarged and the side chapel of the Archangel Michael, which gave the church its name, was added on the south.
        • The church is a federal architectural monument.
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        ☕️ Grabli on Pyatnitskaya
        Пятницкая ул., 27
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        Back to Pyatnitskaya, to building 27 — 6 minutes. Self-service: blini, julienne, home-style cutlets — quick and inexpensive.
        🍴 A three-floor self-service restaurant: display cases of home-style food, and the veranda is open in summer. What to order: crêpes with meat, mushroom julienne, a dessert from the display.
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        🏛 Moscow Historical Mosque and Tukay Monument
        ул. Большая Татарская, 28
        The oldest surviving mosque in Moscow, the heart of the former Tatar Quarter. Around the corner sits a bronze Gabdulla Tukay.
        Along Klimentovsky and Novokuznetskaya to Bolshaya Tatarskaya — 8 minutes. We look at the mosque from outside, and round the corner, on Novokuznetskaya, sits Gabdulla Tukay.
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        Moscow Historical Mosque and Tukay Monument
        © Александр Сигачёв · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Moscow Historical Mosque and Tukay Monument
        © Maqivi · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The mosque was built in 1823 with permission from Governor-General Dmitry Golitsyn, on land donated by the merchant Nazarbay Khashalov.
        • In 1881 the mosque was allowed to take on a proper canonical form and get a minaret and dome; the minaret was demolished in 1967.
        • The mosque reopened for worshippers in 1993.
        • The monument to the Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukay, at the corner of Novokuznetskaya Street and Maly Tatarsky Lane, was unveiled on 26 April 2011.
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        🏛 Church of St Nicholas in Kuznetsy
        Вишняковский пер., 15
        The church of the former Blacksmiths' Quarter, with a tall bell tower — one of the few in Moscow that never closed in Soviet times.
        Across Novokuznetskaya into Vishnyakovsky Lane — 3 minutes. The tall bell tower is visible from afar.
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        Church of St Nicholas in Kuznetsy
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The Blacksmiths' Quarter appeared here around 1490, and the first church was built in 1491.
        • A stone church with a side chapel of St Sergius of Radonezh was built in 1683; the current one, with a rotunda dome, was consecrated in 1817.
        • The church was rebuilt again in 1847, when a third tier was added to the bell tower.
        • The church never closed in Soviet times.
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        🏛 Church of the Trinity in Vishnyaki
        Пятницкая ул., 51
        An Empire-style church at the corner of Pyatnitskaya Street and Vishnyakovsky Lane, with a colonnade and a fence from the 1830s.
        Along Vishnyakovsky to Pyatnitskaya. An Empire-style colonnade and a fence from the 1830s.
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        Church of the Trinity in Vishnyaki
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The first church was probably built in the 1630s by the musketeers who guarded the Earthen Rampart.
        • The current building dates from 1804-1824; the fence and the clergy houses from the 1830s.
        • In 1826 the old bell tower was pulled down because it got in the way of widening Pyatnitskaya, and a new one was built.
        • The church was closed no earlier than 1929 and reopened in 1994.

      ↩️ Getting back: from the church, 10 minutes along Pyatnitskaya to Paveletskaya metro or 7 minutes back to Novokuznetskaya

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