Church of Righteous John the Russian, Orthodox wooden church in Kuntsevo, Russia
Church of Righteous John the Russian is a wooden Orthodox structure in Kuntsevo featuring steep roofs and detailed carved ornaments in the Russian-Byzantine style. Inside, a brass iconostasis reflects traditional Orthodox craftsmanship and religious decoration.
The wooden chapel church was built in 2003–2004 with the blessing of Patriarch Alexy II, its form modelled on a ship (korablets). On 25 August 2010 the Moscow mayor signed an order for a church complex, and a plot was assigned for a stone church within the city's "200 churches" programme. Bishop Ignatius of Vyborg and Priozersk laid the foundation stone on 7 July 2013; Bishop Tikhon of Yegoryevsk performed the lesser consecration on 7 July 2016 and Patriarch Kirill the great consecration on 2 April 2017.
The church keeps a venerated icon of John the Russian with a particle of his relics. Every Sunday at 3 p.m. a moleben is served to him, and his feast day is marked on 9 June (new style). The parish runs a Sunday school with a theatre, craft circles and the youth group "Vernost".
The complex stands in Kuntsevo, in Moscow's Western Administrative Okrug. Services are held daily: the liturgy at 8:30, with two liturgies at 7:00 and 10:00 on Sundays and major feasts, and vespers at 17:00. A moleben to John the Russian is served Sundays at 15:00.
The monument beside the church, funded at the initiative of parishioners and unveiled on 8 May 2015, shows a weary Soviet soldier in wartime uniform holding a PPSh-41 submachine gun with its barrel lowered, as if returning home after the victory.
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