Kadashi Church, Eastern Orthodox church building in Yakimanka District, Moscow, Russia.
Kadashi Church is an Eastern Orthodox structure in Moscow Baroque style featuring five golden domes rising above an elongated structure. The building displays intricate decorative elements on its tower and walls, characteristic of the architectural period in which it was built.
A wooden Church of the Resurrection was first documented in 1493, when Prince Ivan Patrikeev listed the village beyond the Moskva River as his property. The first stone church, built in 1656, survived about thirty years; its southern apse and a stone cellar under the altars remain. In 1687 merchants Kondrat Dobrynin and his son Longin funded the present two-storey, five-domed church, completed by 1695.
The name Kadashi comes from the Kadashy weavers' sloboda that surrounded the church; its main altar is dedicated to the Resurrection of Christ, and the four-altar building was funded by local merchants Kondrat Dobrynin and his son Longin. Its walls were painted by tsarist icon painters Pyotr Belyaev, Nikolai Solomonov, Pyotr Korobov and Pyotr Bilindin. In 2010 the demolition of nearby old buildings, including an 1813 deacon's house, for an apartment block sparked the media campaign known as the "battle of Kadashi".
The church stands at 2nd Kadashyovsky Lane 7/14, between Polyanka and Ordynka streets south of the Moskva River, a short walk from Tretyakovskaya metro station. The bell tower exceeds 43 metres, so it can be spotted from Red Square to orient yourself. The building is an active parish again since December 2006, so visitors should respect Orthodox church rules inside.
During Soviet rule the building was repurposed and housed classified archives for decades. It returned to the church in the first years of the new millennium, allowing it to resume its original religious purpose.
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