Nativity Church at Putinki

The Church of the Nativity of the

Russian architecture

. The snow-white church with its multiple tents and azure-and-gold domes resembles a daintily carved piece of ivory.
The Nativity church at Putinki consists of six exquisite
belltower
placed between the church and refectory. The porch also terminates in a pyramidal roof.
The church was commissioned by Tsar
Patriarch Nikon
, when passing the church on his way to the Trinity Monastery, was so scandalized by its unorthodox design that he prohibited the construction of tent-like churches altogether.
After the Vysokopetrovsky Monastery was closed down by the Soviet authorities in 1929, Archimandrite Bartholomew Remov arranged for the monks and nuns to continue their monastic life in secret at the Nativity Church, where he was the Rector. The spiritual life of the monastery continued at Putinki until the NKVD was informed and arrested everyone involved in 1935.^[1]
The Soviet authorities closed the church in 1938 but they also funded repair works in 1957. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the church was reopened as the patriarch's metochion.

References

^ I.I. Osipova (2003), Hide Me Within Thy Wounds: The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the USSR from Material in Criminal Investigation and Labor Camp Files, Germans from Russia Heritage Collection. Fargo, North Dakota. Pages 43-45.

External links

Views of the church

Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Putinki (Moscow)

55°46′01″N 37°36′24″E / 55.76695001°N 37.60675001°E / 55.76695001; 37.60675001

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[1] I.I. Osipova (2003), Hide Me Within Thy Wounds: The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the USSR from Material in Criminal Investigation and Labor Camp Files, Germans from Russia Heritage Collection. Fargo, North Dakota. Pages 43-45.

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