The Church of the Great Martyr George, the Victorious in Endov (Georgievsky Church), is an Orthodox church in the Zamoskvorechye district of Moscow.
It belongs to the Moskvoretsky deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. An architectural monument of the 17th century in the style of Moscow ornamentation. Since 1992 it has been a courtyard of the Solovetsky Monastery.
The first stone church was founded on this site in 1588 at the request of Archbishop Arseny of Elasson, who arrived in Moscow from Constantinople as part of the patriarchal embassy.
In the 1670-1680s, the entire western part of the building was rebuilt. As a result of these works, a hipped bell tower was erected, and the refectory almost doubled, including the new Nikolsky chapel.
A strong flood in 1729 eroded the soil under the temple. It damaged the foundations of the refectory and the bell tower, and in 1729-1730 they were rebuilt again.
The hipped bell tower was again destroyed by a strong flood in 1786. Instead, in 1806, the existing three-tiered bell tower was erected at the expense of P. G. Demidov. Only during the restoration of the 1960s was the refectory restored to its late 17th-century appearance.
In the 1760s, a white-stone fence decorated with pilasters, two gates, and a forged lattice appeared around the temple. During the construction of the bell tower, the fence was somewhat changed, and the only surviving link of the forged lattice of the middle of the 18th century is now in the Kolomenskoye Museum.
Under Soviet rule, the church was open until 1935. After its closure, the building was used by various organizations.
In 1958-1962, the church building was restored according to the project of N. D. Nedovich.
Nearest metro: Novokuznetskaya, Kitay-Gorod, Tretyakovskaya.
See also architecture of Moscow, churches and cathedrals of Moscow
