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Nativity Church at Putinki

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arranged for the monks and nuns to continue their monastic life in secret at the Nativity Church, where he was the Rector. The spiritual life of the monastery continued at Putinki until the
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The Soviet authorities closed the church in 1938 but they also funded repair works in 1957. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the church was reopened as the patriarch's
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Hide Me Within Thy Wounds: The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the USSR from Material in Criminal Investigation and Labor Camp Files
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arranged in a highly unusual composition. Three candle-like tents, placed in a row, crown the church, while its
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placed between the church and refectory. The porch also terminates in a pyramidal roof.
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in 1649 in order to grace a highway leading from Moscow to the
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Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow
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Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Putinki (Moscow)
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The Nativity church at Putinki consists of six exquisite
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was informed and arrested everyone involved in 1935.
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Index


Theotokos
Moscow
tent-like church
Russian architecture
tented roofs
refectory
corbel arches
belltower
Alexis Mikhailovich
Trinity Monastery
Patriarch Nikon
Vysokopetrovsky Monastery
Archimandrite
Bartholomew Remov
NKVD
metochion
Fargo, North Dakota
Views of the church
Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Putinki (Moscow)
55°46′01″N 37°36′24″E / 55.76695001°N 37.60675001°E / 55.76695001; 37.60675001
Categories
Russian Orthodox churches in Moscow
Churches completed in 1652
Eastern Orthodox church buildings
1652 establishments in Russia
Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow

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