Intercession Church, Aleksino, Eastern Orthodox church building in Aleksino, Russia
The Intercession Church in Aleksino is a stone Orthodox church built in 1803 in the provincial classicism style, standing in the village of Aleksino in the Ruzsky district of the Moscow region. A tented bell tower was added to the building in 1872. It belongs to the Ruzsky deanery of the Odintsovo diocese.
A church existed in Aleksino by the 16th century but was destroyed during the Time of Troubles; a 1627 record notes only a church site remained. By 1676 Metropolitan Serapion of Sarsk and Podonsk had it restored. After a village fire burned it in June 1802, a new stone church in the provincial classicism style was built in summer 1803, reconsecrated on 17 February 1813 after the war with Napoleon, and given a tented bell tower in 1872.
The church belongs to the Ruzsky deanery of the Odintsovo diocese; its rector is Archpriest Vadim Vladyshevsky, with Priest Ioann Borisov also serving. The church was reconsecrated on 17 February 1813 after the War of 1812, and it was the only church in the entire district to remain open throughout the Soviet period.
The church stands in the village of Aleksino, in the Ruzsky district of the Moscow region, and belongs to the Ruzsky deanery of the Odintsovo diocese. It is the only church in the whole district that stayed open throughout the Soviet period, so services continued without a break. The rector is Archpriest Vadim Vladyshevsky, with Priest Ioann Borisov serving alongside him.
The church is the only one in its whole district that stayed open throughout the Soviet period, so services never stopped there. Its tented bell tower was added only in 1872, seven decades after the stone church itself went up in 1803.
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