Podkopayevsky Lane 15/9, Bld 2  

55.753183, 37.641507 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Bell tower
Bird above the bakery window
owl

Историческая справка

The Church of St Nicholas the Wonderworker in Podkopai was first mentioned in 1493 when Tsar Ivan III moved here after a big fire that destroyed his Kremlin palace. It happened on July 28, when "a penny candle set Moscow on fire". At that time, there was a rural district of royal gardens and villages.

The name Podkopaevo (from the Russian word "podkop" which means "digging under") may have come from the surname of the owner of the local village, although there are other interesting versions. The most plausible of them is that here was a quarry for the extraction of clay. It is said that deposits of excellent red clay are still hidden under the asphalt.

The other version says that once some thieves made a tunnel under the church, climbed inside, took a silver plating of the icon of St Nicholas and left, but on their way back some stones in the tunnel collapsed and buried one of the thieves under them. It is interesting that during one of the recent reconstructions, it turned out that under the church there is an abandoned vaulted room with sealed underground passages.

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