The Church of St. Nicholas, the Wonderworker near Tverskaya Zastava, is an Old Believer Orthodox church in the Tverskoy district of Moscow, on Tverskaya Zastava Square. Belongs to the Moscow diocese of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church.
The construction of the temple began in 1914, consecrated in 1921. After the war, it housed art workshops. Handed over to the community in the 1990s, services resumed in 1995.
The architect Ivan Kondratenko carried out the temple’s first project in 1908 by order of I. K. Rakhmanov. The city government approved the project, but for unknown reasons, construction was delayed.
Six years later, the community hired another architect, Anton Gurzhienko, to develop a new project. The temple is made in the neo-Russian style, focused on early Novgorod architecture and is like the Spas on Nereditsa in Veliky Novgorod. Inside, it is pillarless (in Kondratenko’s project, it was supposed to be six-pillared), a hipped bell tower was attached to the temple, which imitates Novgorod belfries, and the facades are decorated with brick decor, characteristic of northern architecture.
Nearest metro: Belorusskaya metro (Circle Line), Belorusskaya (Zamoskvoretskaya line).
See also architecture of Moscow, churches and cathedrals of Moscow
