The Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist is an Orthodox church of the Naro-Fominsk deanery of the Moscow diocese , located in the village of Atheneyevo, Naro-Fominsk district of the Moscow region .
| Orthodox Church | |
| John the Baptist Church | |
|---|---|
| Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist | |
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| A country |  Russia |
| Village | Afineevo Naro-Fominsky district of the Moscow region |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Diocese | Moscow |
| Architectural style | Moscow baroque |
| Building | 1704 - 1709 years |
| Key dates | |
| 1704 - start of construction 1709 - end of construction | |
| Status |  An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. Reg. No. 501410417260006 ( EGROKN ). (Wikigid database) |
| condition | acts |
History
The construction of a stone church, in the village of Afineevo, was begun in 1704 by Mikhail Protasiev at the expense of his father, Alexander Petrovich Protasiev, and completed in 5 years. November 4, 1709 were
| ... two antimins were issued, by a blessed letter, to the Moscow district, to the village of Afineevo, to the newly-built church of John the Baptist, and to the limit of Alexei Metropolitan, the Chinese magpie, the elder of the priest, Nikolaev pop Theodor Yakovlev took two antimins and painted. |
It was an octagon-type building on a quadruple, in the Moscow Baroque style .
In 1779, the new owner of the village, Zakhar Egorovich Volynsky, replaced the head of the church and covered the church with iron. A little later, in the 1780s, the church was reconstructed in the pseudo-Gothic style: instead of the old bell tower, a new one was built, the apse of the northern chapel was superstructured and a four-column portico was built. The chapel of St. Alexy was re-sanctified into the chapel of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.
The last owner of Afineev was the founder of the Theater Museum in Moscow, Alexei Alexandrovich Bakhrushin .
In Soviet times, the temple did not close.