Church of the Holy Trinity at the Borisovo Ponds

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Coordinates: 55°37′39″N 37°42′43″E / 55.627418°N 37.71192°E / 55.627418; 37.71192

Holy Trinity Church in Orekhovo-Borisovo

The Church of the Holy Trinity at the Borisovo Ponds (храм Троицы в Орехове-Борисове) is a metochion of the Patriarch of Moscow on the Kashira Highway in Orekhovo-Borisovo, a residential district in South Moscow. It was built in 2001–2004 to a Byzantine Revival design by , an architect favored by Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov. Apart from the 70-metre-tall main church, the compound includes a chapel, a free-standing prothesis, a zvonnitsa, and a school. The interior has an icon screen made of porcelain and the academic wall paintings by . The church was originally slated to be erected in 1988, in of the Baptism of Rus, but those plans did not materialize until 15 years later.

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