This long-suffering church is somehow surprisingly located between three lanes: Novovogankovsky and two Trekhgorny. The Church of St. Nicholas on the Three Mountains over its centuries-old history has repeatedly changed its name and was rebuilt several times. In the annals of 1628 his ancestor is mentioned - the Church of St. Nicholas in Psary. She got this name due to the transfer of the Royal Parsky Court here in the middle of the XVII century. This parish church community moved around the city several times, and, surprisingly, it always carried the church with itself, which is probably why for some time it was called "St. Nicholas Church on the Chicken Leg."
Church of St. Nicholas on the Three Mountains
In 1695, the Psarny Yard was located in the tract Three Mountains, behind an outpost called Trekhgorny. Initially, it was a wooden church, then in 1762-1775 it was rebuilt in stone in the village of New Vagankovo with three thrones. The main one is in honor of the icon of the Virgin "Life-giving spring", two limits are in honor of St. Nicholas and St. Demetrius of Rostov. Over time, its limits gradually expanded, and in 1860 a high bell tower and refectory were rebuilt, the area of possessions more than doubled.
The Church of St. Nicholas on the Three Mountains is an architectural monument of the 19th century and an object of cultural heritage. A very interesting fact is known related to this structure. It turns out that in the 1920s, A.V. served as regent here. Alexandrov, who became the author of the anthem of the Soviet Union.
The parishioners of the church were ordinary people, peasants and workers, but quite wealthy people also met, including the manufacturers Prokhorov, who owned the Trekhgornaya manufactory.
All extensions did not create a harmonious architectural ensemble, so it was decided to completely rebuild the church itself according to the project of the famous Russian architect G.A. Kaiser money-rich merchants Kopeykin-Serebryakov, who lived in the parish of the church. On December 1, 1902, the renovated temple was consecrated. However, all construction and finishing work was finally completed only in 1908.
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
The workers of the Trekhgornaya manufactory saved the church from the devastating destruction. In the most turbulent and dangerous of 1905 and 1917, they organized the guarding of the cathedral, which was right at the epicenter of all the revolutionary events taking place on Presnya. Thanks to this, the temple was not plundered and destroyed.
However, in the beginning of the 1920s, the church could not be preserved, at first it was ruined, and then completely closed. In 1929 it was rebuilt, the dome and the bell tower were destroyed. The new government placed a club there, and a little later, the house of pioneers to them. Pavlik Morozov. The lane, called Nikolsky, also began to bear the name of the pioneer hero.
The long-awaited thaw
And now in our time after the collapse of the USSR, the Moscow government signed an order to return the building with the territory adjacent to it to the possession of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Church of St. Nicholas on the Three Mountains was immediately subjected to major restoration and restored to its original beauty. Today he works, even a bible college, a Sunday school, a club for the reconstruction of medieval folk cultures are open.
You can visit this temple at the address: Moscow, Novovagankovsky lane, house 9, building. 1. Rector is now Archpriest Dmitry Roshchin, appointed February 11, 2016.
Schedule of Divine Services
Matins Liturgy - beginning at 8.00 (on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays). On great holidays and on Sundays - beginning at 9.00. On the eve at 17.00 - Vespers. At 18.00 on Wednesdays, the akathist St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. At 8.00 on Sundays - a moleben and water is blessed.
The commemoration of St. Nicholas takes place at the present time: September 11 - the saint’s Christmas, May 22 - the day of the transfer of his honest relics, December 19 - the celebration of the celebration of St. Nicholas.
The temple also has its own shrines. This is a casket with the relics of St. Nicholas Mir of Lycia (for worship it is taken out of the altar only on Sunday liturgies), as well as the icon of the Holy Savior, the icon of St. Nicholas with the relics and the ark with the relics of St. Demetrius of Rostov.