Churches, cloisters

The Church of the Holy Trinity at the Borisovo Ponds is a metochion of the Patriarch of Moscow on the Kashira Highway in Orekhovo-Borisovo, a residential district in Sout...

Sretensky Monastery is a monastery in Moscow, Russia, founded by Grand Prince Vasily I in 1397. Originally located close to the present-day Red Square, it was moved in ... 30

The Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos at Putinki is one of the most picturesque churches in Moscow and the last major tent-like church in the history of Russian a... 47

The Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery in Zvenigorod. 118

The Estate of Princes Golitsyns – Dubrovitzy is located in 20 kilometers from Moscow, in the outskirts of town Podolsk. Nowadays the estate includes a prince's palace, ... 1857

The Novodevichy Convent was founded in 1524 by Grand Prince Vasili III in commemoration of the conquest of Smolensk in 1514. It was built as a fortress at a curve of th... 229

In Moscow, there is a unique in its beauty and form church, which is called Menshikov Tower also known as the Church of Archangel Gabriel. Alexander Menshikov odered to... 320

St. Andrew’s Monastery was built in 1648 in the place of the monastery burned-out in 1547 (as the legend has it, the first convent was built here in the 13th century). ... 417

The Resurrection Church in Kadashi Sloboda (Храм Воскресения Христова в Кадашах) is a major Naryshkin Baroque church in Moscow (Yakimanka District), formerly the talles... 241

It is one of the ancient districts of Moscow. It was named Zariadie in the 17th century, because of its location behind ("za") the traders’ stalls ("riady"), which exte... 1186

You'll discover an amazing sight if you decide to walk in Malaya Gruzinskaya Street one evening. The cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary, whi... 2395

Dubrovitsy is an estate of the princes Golitseny located 20 km from Moscow on the outskirts of the town Podolsk. At present, the estate includes a mansion-house, mews w... 1525

I was just scolding myself for not seeing that before. I think everybody heard about Novodevichy Convent - the best-known cloister of Moscow. But not every resident of ... 1316