“Preobrazhenskaya ploshchad” metro station  

55.796380966306, 37.713249960788 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

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The Church of Transfiguration built of stone in 1781 was the last church to be blown up in Moscow during the Soviet era. Under Khrushchev, the demolition of churches almost stopped, but the Transfiguration Church parish was indecently large and suspiciously active for Moscow. In the secret report of the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church under the USSR Council of Ministers “On the situation and activities of the church in Moscow and in the Moscow Region (for 1962)”, the Church of Transfiguration was noted as functioning “the most actively”: 993 baptisms, 236 funeral services, and 17 weddings were performed there.

At four in the morning on the night of July 17 to 18, 1964, the Church of Transfiguration of the Lord was blown up under the pretext of building the metro. According to a Moscow legend, after the explosion the church all rose up, maintaining a single silhouette, and only then fell apart: this was seen as a prophecy and hope for its revival.

In the 2010s the church was restored. And not in the 18th century version, but in the form it had when the explosion occurred, according to the dimensioned drawings of 1883 and photographs of the 20th century. On May 8, 2015, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia performed the Rite of Great Consecration of the Church of Transfiguration of the Lord and conducted the Divine Liturgy in the newly consecrated temple.

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