The Church of the Holy Trinity at the Borisovo Ponds (храм Троицы в Орехове-Борисове) is a

metochion A ''metochion'' or ''metochi'' ( or ; ) is an ecclesiastical embassy church within Eastern Orthodox tradition. It is usually from one autocephalous or autonomous church to another. The term is also used to refer to a parish representation (or ...

of the

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on the Kashira Highway in Orekhovo-Borisovo, a residential

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in South

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. It was built in 2001–2004 to a

Byzantine Revival Neo-Byzantine architecture (also referred to as Byzantine Revival) was a revival movement, most frequently seen in religious, institutional and public buildings. It incorporates elements of the Byzantine style associated with Eastern and Or ...

design by Vladimir Kolosnitsyn, an architect favored by

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Yuri Luzhkov Yuri may refer to: People Given name *Yuri (Slavic name), the Slavic masculine form of the given name George, including a list of people with the given name Yuri, Yury, etc. *Yuri (Japanese name), feminine Japanese given names, including a list o ...

. Apart from the 70-metre-tall main church, the compound includes a

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, a free-standing prothesis, a

zvonnitsa A ''zvonnitsa'' (, ; ; ; ) is a large rectangular structure containing multiple arches or beams that support bells, and a basal platform where bell ringers stand to perform the ringing using long ropes. It was an alternative to a bell tower in R ...

, and a

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. The interior has an

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made of

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and the academic wall paintings by

Vasily Nesterenko Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy (Russian: Василий) is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to ''Basil''. It may refer to: *Vasily I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425 *Vasily II of Moscow Grand Prince fro ...

. The church was originally slated to be erected in 1988, in commemoration of the millennium of the

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, but those plans did not materialize until 15 years later.

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