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The Church of St. Sergius in Krapivniki has been known since the end of the 16th century. It is depicted on the "Peter's drawing" of Moscow, and this is so far the only evidence of the existence of a single-domed church at that time. The first written confirmation of the existence of the church dates back to 1625, when it was made of wood.

The name of the church "in Krapivniki" has no clear explanation. According to one version, this could be called a sparsely populated area, overgrown with weeds and nettles. According to another point of view, the lane in which the church stands was named after the owner of one of the yards.

Indeed, in 1752, one of the properties next to the temple belonged to collegiate assessor Alexei Krapivin. In the past, there were other names for the church: “in Starye Serebryaniki”, “at the Trumpet”, that is, near Trubnaya Square, “in Watchmen”.

In pre-revolutionary times, the church in Krapivniki was the only church in the center of the capital, the main throne in which was consecrated in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh.

Sergius Church is not large, it stands at an angle to Krapivensky Lane and protrudes far into the roadway with its bell tower. This arrangement tells us about the antiquity of the temple. The oldest part of the church is a small square built in stone in 1678. From the north, south and west it is surrounded by later additions. Only its eastern wall was not built up with anything. Here we can see the altar apse, window frames, the old cornice. What was the initial completion of the cubic building is not exactly known. Most likely, the church was single-domed.

The southern chapel in the name of the Beheading of John the Baptist was added to the temple in 1702. It is combined with the refectory in a single space. In 1885-1886, the chapel of John the Baptist was enlarged. The apse was rebuilt and moved to the east. She became flush with the other two altars of the temple. The Predtechensky aisle became larger in area than the ancient quadrangle and the northern aisle. Now this chapel is dedicated to All Saints who shone in the Russian land.

In 1749, the church was rebuilt, and it became almost the same as we see it today. Above the old quadrangle, a new completion appeared in the form of a rectangular volume with cut corners. Arched niches with keystones were arranged on its short sides. All corners of the superstructure were decorated with pilasters. The new completion of the temple is covered with a high octagonal dome and crowned with a simple, unadorned, smooth drum with a small dome and an openwork forged cross. At the same time, the northern Nikolsky chapel was added to the temple (in 1998 it was consecrated in the name of Seraphim of Sarov). The church received features of the Baroque style. It is possible that the reconstruction of the temple was carried out according to the project of the master of the school, Prince D.V. Ukhtomsky - the chief architect of Moscow in the middle of the 18th century.

The well-known Russian philosopher, public figure, writer and music critic V.F. Odoevsky (1804-1869). In 1812, during the stay of the Napoleonic army in Moscow, the church was badly damaged. After the departure of the French, it was assigned to the neighboring church of St. John the Evangelist (it was not preserved, it stood in Petrovsky Lane). Divine services resumed only in 1875.

On November 15, 1883, the Church of St. Sergius, which did not have its own parish, was transferred to the Patriarchate of Constantinople for the device of its own courtyard (representation in the Russian Empire).

In 1920, the Church of St. Sergius in Krapivniki largely shared the fate of the entire Russian Orthodox Church. Values ​​(liturgical vessels, ancient robes on icons and the icons themselves) were forcibly seized from it. It is known that the seizure of valuables was accompanied by unrest among parishioners. In 1934, the last Greek rector of the temple dies. Due to the fact that, from a formal point of view, the Constantinople Compound did not belong to the Russian Church, it was not closed for several more years. The temple was closed one of the last in Moscow - in 1938. In the late 1930s, the ringing tier of the bell tower and the drum above the main volume were dismantled near the already closed church. Inside, handicraft production was set up for sharpening skates, which is explained by the proximity of the Dynamo skating rink, beloved by Muscovites. In this form, the temple was preserved until August 30, 1991, when it was consecrated by Patriarch Alexy II. Now the temple is the Patriarchal Compound.

In 2001, the bell tower dismantled by the Bolsheviks was restored, and in 2010 the chapel was consecrated in honor of All Saints, who shone in the Russian land. In 2013, the painting of the Serafimovsky chapel, made by the icon painter Irina Zaron, was opened.

On the outer northern wall of the temple, there are boards with inscriptions in beautiful script, telling about the parishioners buried next to them. Several representatives of the Ukhtomsky princely family are buried here. They lived in the Sergievsky parish in the 16th-18th centuries. Here were the graves of Princess E.M. Dashkova (1711), steward M.B. Chelishchev and his wife and others. Until our time, under the south-western corner of the refectory, the tomb of the princes of Ukhtomsky has been preserved. The necropolis of the Sergius Church is one of the most famous in Moscow

Since 1991, the Church of Sergius has housed an outstanding work of art and a revered shrine - the Kiysky Cross, one of the most significant reliquaries in the history of Christianity. The cross, repeating the dimensions of the Cross of Christ, was made by order of Patriarch Nikon and consecrated on August 1, 1656 in Moscow. It was intended for the Monastery of the Cross founded by Nikon on Kiy Island in the White Sea. Patriarch Nikon placed in the Cross relics of 104 saints and 16 stones from various holy places in Palestine. The cross was in its place, in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross Monastery, until 1923. Then he was transferred to the anti-religious museum on Solovki, and in 1930 to the State Historical Museum in Moscow. Among other revered shrines of this ancient temple are miraculous icons: the image of the Mother of God Feodorovskaya and the image of St. Sergius of Radonezh.