Старообрядческая улица. Храм-колокольня

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"Enjoying the gate, we see right in front of a high temple-bell tower, with one high dome and two side, lower. The Temple-Bell Tower was built in 1910-1913 in memory of the printing of the Altar of the Rogozhsky cemetery. Representing the similarity of ancient tables, the bell tower is decorated with the facade of the relief images of 'fabulous paradise birds: Sirina, Alkonosta and Gamayuna. " Guidebook "In Moscow. Walking in Moscow and its artistic and educational institutions" Edited by N.A. Hytnik, N.S. Vehina, E.A. Nefimova, I.A.Shittsa. Moscow, ed. M.I S.Sabashnikov, 1917.hram-Bellolne was built by architect F.F. Gornostayev. The temple at the bell tower was consecrated in honor of the Nativity of Christ and the Resurrection of Christ (the sanctification took place in 1913), but then in the Soviet years it was closed. First, in the mid-1920s, the bells were removed from the bell tower, but the temple continued to act until 1933.