The Church of St. Nicholas in Old Koptev is the now destroyed Orthodox church in the former village of Koptevo , which became part of Moscow . The temple was founded in 1907 , but its construction, presumably, was not completed. The main temple was supposed to be consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker , and the thrones - in honor of Moscow Metropolitan Alexy and Mikhail Malein . By the 1930s, the temple was demolished. The church was located in the intersection of modern Novopetrovskaya and Koptevskaya streets.
| Orthodox church | |
| Church of St. Nicholas in Old Koptev | |
|---|---|
 Project of the Church of St. Nicholas | |
| A country |  Russia |
| Location | Moscow |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Building | 1907 |
| condition | Demolished |
History
The area called Koptevo has been known since the end of the 16th century. In the second half of the 18th century, the Georgian prince George Vakhtangovich, who owned the neighboring village of Vsekhsvyatskoye, acquired the village. Residents of Koptev were parishioners of the Church of All Saints in All Saints . By the beginning of the 20th century, the population of the village was already 439 people, and the village of Vsekhsvyatskoye was located two miles from it. Then the priest of the All Saints Church Sergey Lebedev took the initiative to build his own church in Koptev. [one]
In 1905, the architect N. N. Blagoveshchensky drafted a church. The temple was decided to build on the site of the former church, according to legend, destroyed by the Poles in 1612. [2] Presumably, due to lack of funds and bureaucratic difficulties, construction began only two years later. [3] One of the main benefactors, Ipat Afanasyev, who promised to donate funds to the temple, died without waiting for permission to build. [4] On May 31 ( June 13 ), 1907 at 11:30 a procession was proceeded from the Church of All Saints in Koptevo, after which, with a large crowd of people, the solemn laying of the church of St. Nicholas took place. [5] On October 18 (31), 1908, a parish school was opened next to the church under construction. [4] The construction of the temple was slow and was soon suspended due to lack of funding. [6]
But in July 1915, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, construction was resumed. [6] Funds for the temple were donated by the Yokish cloth factory in the neighboring village of Mikhalkov [6] and the sobriety society founded by Sergei Lebedev. [2] The temple was supposed to be consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas - in honor of Emperor Nicholas II . One of the chapels of the temple was to be consecrated in the name of Mikhail Malein , in whose honor the founder of the Romanov dynasty was named. [7]
It is not known whether the construction of the temple was completed. According to the memoirs of old-timers, in the 1930s his building no longer existed. The place where the temple stood was not built up, so it is likely that its foundation has been preserved. [6]
Architecture
The temple was quite large - about 34 meters long and 17 meters wide. The most voluminous part of the church was a wide refectory, blocked by a single vault. A small five-headed volume towered above it. The high tent bell tower adjoined the refectory. The location of the thrones is uncharacteristic of temple architecture. They are located directly under the five-domed head, and not in the apse , as is customary. The architect followed the traditions of medieval Russian architecture, which was manifested in various decorative elements: keel-shaped kokoshniks , fly-overs , window frames, belts, cornices and more. [6]
Notes
- ↑ Weintraub, Karpova, Skopin, 1997 , p. 122.
- ↑ 1 2 Tokmakov, 1912 , p. 54.
- ↑ Weintraub, Karpova, Skopin, 1997 , p. 123.
- ↑ 1 2 Tokmakov, 1912 , p. 45.
- ↑ Tokmakov, 1912 , p. 44.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Weintraub, Karpova, Skopin, 1997 , p. 124.
- ↑ Tokmakov, 1912 , p. 56.
Literature
- Weintraub L.R., Karpova M. B., Skopin V.V. Temples of the Northern District. - M .: Staraya Basmannaya, 1997 .-- S. 122-124. - 272 p. - ISBN 5-8468-0052-1 .
- Palamarchuk P.G. Forty magpies. Moscow within the borders of 1917 . - M .: Book and business: Krom, 1995. - T. 3. - 586 p. - ISBN 5-7119-0043-9 .
- Tokmakov I.F. Beneficial Pastoral Activities. The priest of the Church of the village of All Saints in Moscow County about. Sergey Nikolaevich Lebedev, founder of the Kurkinsky, All Saints and Nikolo-Butyrsky Sobriety Societies. 1889-1911 gg. - M. , 1912.