Holy Trinity Church in Vishnyaki, Orthodox church in Zamoskvorechye District, Moscow, Russia.
The Holy Trinity Church in Vishnyaki is a religious building constructed in Empire style with classical proportions and traditional Orthodox design features. The structure displays characteristic tall forms and ornamental details that define this architectural approach.
The first stone church on this site was built to commemorate the Battle of Chigirin, authorised in 1678 and begun no earlier than 1686; it was enlarged with side chapels in 1706, 1734 and 1788. From 1804 the old buildings were replaced: a new refectory and a single-domed main volume, burnt in the 1812 Moscow fire and rebuilt by 1824. In 1826 the old bell tower was demolished because it obstructed the widened Pyatnitskaya Street; the new one was built to designs by Fyodor Shestakov and Nikolay Kozlovsky. The attribution of the drawings to Afanasy Grigoriev is not supported by academic sources.
The name Vishnyaki comes from Matvey Vishnyakov, a colonel of the Streltsy regiment once stationed here; earlier documents called the church Trinity in the Alexeyev order of Meshcherinov (1642) and in Ivanov order of Monastyryov (1657). Since 1994 the church has served the St. Tikhon Orthodox Institute, and services are led by its rector, Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov, together with priest-teachers of the institute.
The church stands at the corner of Pyatnitskaya Street (No. 51) and Vishnyakovsky Lane, a short walk from the Novokuznetskaya metro area. The entrance faces the lane, while the bell tower, rebuilt in 1826 by Shestakov and Kozlovsky, marks the Pyatnitskaya side. Services are led by the rector of St. Tikhon's Orthodox Institute, Vladimir Vorobyov.
The bell tower was rebuilt in 1826 after the old one was demolished because the widening of Pyatnitskaya Street had brought it too close to the roadway; the new design is by Fyodor Shestakov and Nikolay Kozlovsky. The widespread attribution of the drawings to Afanasy Grigoriev is not supported by academic sources.
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