Church of the Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalia in Babushkino
The Church of Martyrs Adrian and Natalia in Babushkin is an Orthodox church in the Yaroslavsky district of Moscow. It belongs to the Sergievsky deanery of the Moscow (city) diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. The main altar was consecrated in honor of the Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia, the side chapels in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Unexpected Joy” and Blessed Basil of Moscow. The building was designed by the architect Vladimir Dmitrievich Glazov and the engineer S.M. Fominsky; the temple was conceived in the Neo-Russian style using both Byzantine and Novgorod-Byzantine motifs. The construction work was supervised by the architect Sergey Mikhailovich Ilyinsky. When the church was laid on June 22 (July 5), 1914, a procession was made from the church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God in the village of Alekseevskoe. The main altar was consecrated on April 2 (15), 1916 by the Holy Martyr Archpriest John Vostorgov, rector of the Intercession Cathedral on the Moat (St. Basil’s Cathedral). The south aisle, the icon of the Mother of God “Unexpected Joy”, was consecrated on August 21 (September 3) of the same year by the Holy Martyr Dimitry (Dobroserdov), Bishop of Mozhaisk. The north aisle, Blessed Basil of Moscow, was consecrated on September 18 (October 1) by the dean of the 6th district of the Moscow District, Priest Vasily Gorodetsky. On July 14 (27), 1924, St. Tikhon (Belavin), His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the church. In 1925, the city of Losinoostrovsk was created (in 1939 it was renamed Babushkin), and the Adriano-Nataliyinsky temple became part of it. And in 1960, during the construction of the MKAD, the temple entered the Moscow city limits. The church has never been closed. In 1931-1935, Deacon Grigory Samarin served here, and in 1934-1935 — priest Vladimir Morinsky. They are both glorified as New martyrs today. Most of the features of the interior decoration of the early twentieth century have been preserved in the temple. The buildings of the gatehouse and the houses of the clergy belong to the same time. In the 1990s a stone belfry was built at the western entrance. In the first decade of the 21st century, the ascribed baptismal church of the righteous Joachim and Anna and the chapel for the consecrated were built.
Address: Moscow, Yaroslavskoye sh., 61, building 1
