Moscow diocesan house, Religious landmark in Tverskoy District, Russia

The Moscow Diocesan House is a two-storey stone building with a semi-basement on Likhov Pereulok, built in 1901–1902 in a neo-Byzantine style with elements of Russian church architecture. Its symmetrical red facade has a central tower with a small dome and spire, pilasters, round-arched upper windows and rectangular lower windows, and a recessed entrance with a staircase flanked by white stone gate posts behind a black metal fence. The house church of St Vladimir was painted by iconographers Vasily Guryanov, Mikhail Dikaryov, Osip Chirikov and V. M. Tyulin.

Construction began in 1901 on land of the Society of Lovers of Spiritual Enlightenment, and the house was consecrated on 5 November 1902; it cost 355,000 rubles. From August 1917 the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church met in its hall for 13 months and on 17 November 1917 resolved to restore the patriarchate. Closed on 15 June 1922, it was rebuilt in constructivist style in 1931-1932 for a film factory, which lost its bell tower and golden cupola.

The house was conceived as a centre of religious education and publishing: it housed the Moscow Society of Lovers of Spiritual Enlightenment, the Orthodox Missionary Society and the Moscow branch of the Palestine Society. Its house church was dedicated to Prince Vladimir, first baptiser of Rus, and painted by iconographers Vasily Guryanov, Mikhail Dikaryov, Osip Chirikov and V. M. Tyulin. Since 2015 the building has served Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University, whose emblem reproduces its drawing.

The building is located in Likhov Pereulok 6 in the Tverskoy District and is easily accessible by public transportation. The nearest metro stations at Teatralnaya and Okhotny Ryad are within walking distance and provide convenient access to the site.

The building's drawing appears on the emblem of Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University. Its cross-shaped Vladimir church was painted by iconographers Vasily Guryanov, Mikhail Dikaryov, Osip Chirikov and V. M. Tyulin. The bell tower and golden dome were demolished in 1931–1932.