Holy Trinity Church in Shabolovka, Eastern Orthodox church in Yakimanka District, Moscow, Russia.
Holy Trinity Church in Shabolovka is a Russian Revival Orthodox church in Moscow's Yakimanka District, built 1885–1896 to a design by Nikolai Nikitin. It replaced an earlier stone church on the same site and can hold a thousand worshippers. Its bell tower was demolished in the 1930s and rebuilt with new bells after 1992.
A wooden Trinity church was founded in Shabolovo in 1698 with the blessing of Patriarch Adrian and consecrated on 28 April 1699, on land granted by the Danilov Monastery. A Pokrov side altar was added in 1722. The wooden building was replaced by a stone church in 1745–1747, consecrated on 15 February 1747; its interior was finished by 1786 and a 100-pood bell hung in 1790. Rebuilt again in 1885–1896 to a design by Nikolai Nikitin, it was closed in 1930, its bell tower and tent roof dismantled, and returned to the church in 1992.
The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, with side altars to the Protection of the Mother of God and Saint Nicholas. Since 1823 it has held a revered 18th-century copy of the Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God, donated by nobleman Pyotr Belyayev. Today special veneration is also given to icons of Saints Boniface and Panteleimon, Saint Daniel of Moscow with a relic fragment, and a copy of the Kazan Icon.
The church stands at 1/2 Shabolovka Street in the Yakimanka District, a short walk from the Shabolovskaya metro station. The bell tower, demolished in the 1930s, was rebuilt with city funding and fitted with new bells. The building is an active parish, so visits should be timed around services.
Under the main altar, dismantled in 1885 before demolition, workers found a wooden cross with an inscription. The church also keeps a copy of the Fyodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God, donated in 1823 by the nobleman Pyotr Belyayev and venerated as wonder-working.
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