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church in the town of Buzhaninovo in the

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History

According to historical records, the earliest (and the only) temple in Buzhaninovo was a St. Nicholas Church, first mentioned in 1543. In 1734 a new wooden construction replaced the time-worn church and was

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by the superior of the neighboring Holy Trinity Monastery,

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Varlaam. A century later, a new stone church was built on the site in the Empire style. The central

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was dedicated to

St. Nicholas Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey) dur ...

, while the

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was dedicated to the Theophany. In the 1940s the church was closed and the services and masses were terminated, the bell tower was demolished and the church building was turned into a warehouse. In the early 1990s, with the change of the political climate in Russia, the church was returned to the local

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community. The church building was restored, and was consecrated in 1998. On December 19, 2000 (St. Nicholas day, the church's patronal feast), a

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of St. Nicholas was granted to the church. The church building and the bell tower have recently been restored. The new rectory building next to the church's West entrance accommodates a

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and Holy Field, local parish assemblies. Churches in Moscow Oblast Russian Orthodox church buildings in Russia 1831 establishments in the Russian Empire Churches completed in 1831 Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Moscow Oblast