Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Popovka
The Church of the Resurrection of Christ, which previously existed in a churchyard near the Malaya Pakhra River, was probably destroyed in the early 17th century during the Polish-Lithuanian invasion. In the scribal books of the Moscow district for 1627, it is mentioned: “a wasteland, that there was a churchyard, and in it a church place, that there was a church of the Resurrection of Christ.” Next to the church land was the Teterevlevo wasteland, which in 1627 belonged to Prokofy Bestuzhev, and later passed to his descendants. In 1680, the patrol books of the Patriarchal Order indicated that the wasteland, where the Resurrection churchyard was previously located, had belonged to the Simonov Monastery since 1674. A cemetery was preserved on the site of the churchyard, and the land around it was used for arable land and haymaking. In 1698, stolnik Peter Bestuzhev-Ryumin received a blessed charter from Patriarch Adrian for the construction of a new stone church of the Resurrection of Christ on the site of the old churchyard. He was ordered to build a church within two years, in compliance with all the canons: a round altar, a royal gate, a certain arrangement of icons, etc. The church was built in 1701, and in the same year the newly ordained priest John began to pay church taxes. The temple became the centre of spiritual life for the locals and the descendants of the Bestuzhevs-Ryumins.
Address: Popovka village, 2B/N, building 1
