Church of Great Martyr St. George the Victorious, Wooden Orthodox church in Nagatinsky Zaton District, Russia.
The Church of Great Martyr St. George the Victorious is a two-tiered structure of pine logs built in 1685. Its main part is a tall quadrangle on a raised basement with tiny window slits and a five-sided altar annex to the east. Above it sits a narrower quadrangle with a barrel-shaped roof crowned by three small domes in a row; the altar annex also has a barrel roof with a dome. A covered porch with stairs leads to the upper tier on the west, where a gallery on brackets once ran around the facade.
Built in 1685 at the expense of parishioners, the church stood in the cemetery ensemble of Srednepogostsky parish in the village of Semyonovskaya on the Yorga River. Closed in the 1930s, it served as a club and then a warehouse. In 2008 it was dismantled and moved to Moscow; reconstruction in Kolomenskoye was completed in 2011, with new logs replacing decayed ones.
The church was the cemetery church of the Srednepogostsky parish, whose 26 villages held about 900 people by the early 19th century. In the 1890s both parish churches were sheathed in boards and painted inside by artists whose names are unknown. Closed in the 1930s, it served as a club and then a warehouse.
The church stands in Kolomenskoye Park near the wooden architecture museum complex, where it was reassembled in 2011. Like the museum's other wooden buildings, it is open to visitors only in the summer months. It is a museum exhibit, not a working parish, so no services are held there.
The church was found by chance: the artist Ilya Glazunov came across the unknown building, which led to a restoration project launched in 2003. The dismantling and move to Moscow took place in 2008, and rebuilding was completed in 2011, with worn logs replaced by new ones.
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