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Église de l'Intercession-de-la-Vierge de Medvekovo, Eastern Orthodox church in Yuzhnoye Medvedkovo District, Russia.

The Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God in Medvekovo features a distinctive tent-shaped roof with a symmetrical layout. The building contains separate worship spaces for winter and summer services, reflecting practical arrangements for different seasons.

A wooden Church of the Intercession with a chapel of Peter of Alexandria stood here by 1623–1624, founded by Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, who cast a bell for it in memory of Moscow's liberation from the Poles. The stone church was completed in 1635, modelled on Saint Basil's Cathedral. Its four chapels recalled Novgorod, where Pozharsky served as voivode in 1628–1630. In 1685 the village passed to Prince Vasily Golitsyn, who reduced the chapels to three; a fourth, to Sergius of Radonezh, followed in 1690.

The side chapels carry Novgorod dedications — the Sign, Varlaam of Khutyn, Anthony of Rome — chosen by Pozharsky after his 1628–1630 service as voivode there. A copy of the venerated Czestochowa icon of the Mother of God is kept in the church, and a marble cross found in the Medvedkovo cemetery stands at the entrance with the inscription "The Cross is victory over death".

The church stands on the right bank of the Yauza, just above where the Chermyanka flows into it, and a cemetery adjoins it. The lower, heated Church of the Sign of the Mother of God and the upper, unheated Church of the Intercession are both in use, so services are held on two floors. The building never closed, even in the 1930s, when it lay outside Moscow's city limits.

This building ranks among the final Moscow churches built with a tent-shaped roof before Patriarch Nikon prohibited the style. It stands as a rare survivor of a brief architectural fashion that shaped Moscow's skyline for only a generation.

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1620
Founders
Dmitry Pozharsky
Architectural style
tented-roof church, Uzorochye
GPS coordinates
55.86527,37.63803
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October 28, 2026 22:45
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