CCC's Street Art Contest #101 - Bell tower of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa church

Hi everybody!

This is my entry for the Street Art Contest #101, the rules of which can be read here - @digi-me/ccc-s-street-art-contest-101-or-100-liquid-payout-and-ecency-points-as-prize-pool-and-winners-of-100

I photographed this mural in May of this year during my walk in Moscow.

It is located on Pyatnitskaya Street, near the Novokuznetskaya metro station:

His appearance in this place is not accidental. Where the lobby of the metro station is now, before the revolution of 1917, there was the Church of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa. The church is quite old. The first mention of it refers to 1564. Initially, the church was wooden, but after another city fire that destroyed the wooden building, the temple was rebuilt in stone. In the middle of the 18th century, a bell tower was added to the church according to the project of the architect D. V. Ukhtomsky. (Under Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, Ukhtomsky was the chief architect of Moscow.)

The temple existed until the second quarter of the twentieth century. In 1935, after the adoption of the General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow, the Church of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa was destroyed. Now only the name of the street on which the church was once located - Pyatnitskaya - reminds of it.

As part of the Know Moscow project, a mural was created in 2015 in memory of the destroyed church, on which an artist unknown to me depicted the same bell tower designed by architect Ukhtomsky. The source of the image of the bell tower was a photo engraving from the album of local historian Nikolai Naydenov “Moscow. Cathedrals, monasteries and churches”, published in 1882.

Street art is made at the end of the former Profitable House, built in 1902.