In the Kitai-city of Moscow there was a Polish embassy court. The local was called “pans, at pans”, after appealing to the Polish representatives. The temple, however, was built Orthodox. Dedicated to the Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian. The first wooden church burned down during the Moscow fire in the 16th century. According to legend, in the new stone temple, the wedding of Ivan the Terrible with his sixth wife, Vasilisa, took place.
In the 17th century, the chapel of the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God was attached to the church. But the golden age of the temple was behind us. The building was dilapidated, new donations were not enough for utensils, new icons. Only in the early 19th century the temple was renewed. Yes, so much so that only a small fragment of the apse remained from the old building, and nothing at all survived from the Assumption chapel.
Immediately after the revolution, the temple was closed, the building was used for offices. It was not followed and by the 90s of the last century it was a miserable sight. After the transfer of the premises of the ROC, it began to be restored.
Now the temple is functioning, some of the shrines were returned to it, a new iconostasis was made. The church building is clamped on all sides by later buildings, the church courtyard is quite small. The church is tented, which is unusual for Moscow. Her two tents are reminiscent of the feats of Cosmas and Damian, two healers for whom serving God and serving people was more important than silver and gold.
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