Red Church, Eastern Orthodox church in Vladimir, Russia.
The Red Church is a brick church building with a prominent red facade located on Dvoryanskaya Street in Vladimir's old quarter. Its Russian Revival design features distinctive architectural details that shape the street view and reflect the construction methods of the early twentieth century.
The Old Believers of the Belokrinitskaya hierarchy bought the corner plot on Dvoryanskaya and Letneperevozinskaya streets in 1912, after the 1905 decree on religious tolerance. The brick church, designed by S. M. Zharov and funded by the community, many of them merchants, was consecrated on 30 October 1916. Services ended in 1928, when the building became a provincial archive bureau.
The church was built for Old Believers of the Belokrinitskaya (Austrian) hierarchy, many of them merchants who financed the 1912 land purchase at Dvoryanskaya and Letneperevozinskaya streets. Worship ended in 1928; since 1974 the hall has hosted museum displays, and in 2023 the local Old Believer community held an exhibition and choir performance here. On 24 June 2024 Metropolitan Korniliy (Titov) led a prayer service inside.
The church stands at the corner of Dvoryanskaya and Letneperevozinskaya streets, near the Golden Gate. It has housed a Vladimir-Suzdal Museum exhibition since 1974, so opening depends on the museum rather than on services. The building is no longer an active place of worship.
In the 1960s the church was slated for demolition to enlarge a square; writer Vladimir Soloukhin and local campaigners secured its survival. Restoration followed in 1971–1973, and in May 1974 the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum opened an exhibition of crystal, lacquer miniatures and embroidery under its vaults.
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