Moscow/Central-East

Moscow Central-East (Центральный Московский-Восток) is in Moscow also part of Central Moscow.

• 🌍 Moscow Orphanage (Foundling Home, Vospitatel′nyj dom, Воспитательный дом), Kitay-gorod, Moskvoretskaya naberezhnaya, 1/15, (M:Kitay-gorod 501m S). Big disused building of 18th century. It was an ambitious project conceived by Catherine the Great and Ivan Betskoy, built in 1764. This was intended to manufacture "ideal citizens" for the Russian state by bringing up thousands of abandoned children to a very high standard of refinement, cultivation, and professional qualifications. Today, the ensemble of the Orphanage houses the Academy of Missile Forces and Russian Academy of Medicine. - he Orphanage was designed as a chain of three square-shaped buildings: the eastern wing for the girls, the western wing for the boys and the central administration block connecting them. Now building closed and disused. (updated Feb 2019)

Religious buildings

• 🌍 Choral Synagogue (Московская Хоральная Синагога, (בית הכנסת כורל (מוסקבה), Basmanny District, Bolshoy Spasogolinischevsky Lane (Большой Спасоглинищевский пер.), 10 (Kitai-Gorod Metro station), ☏ +7 495 940-5557, fax: +7 495 624-6301, info@jewishcom.ru. The main synagogue in Russia and in the former Soviet Union. Completed in 1891.  
• 🌍 Ivanovsky Convent (Ивановский монастырь), Malyy Ivanovskiy pereulok ( Малый Ивановский переулок), 2 (M: Kitay-gorod (Китай-город), Solyanka street, then along Soliansky passage, then along Zabelina street), ☏ +7 495 624-9209, ioannmonastir@gmail.com. Worship M-F 7:30, 16:45; Su 7:30, 8:30, 17:00; M 17:00, The Chapel of John the Forerunner: 08:30-20:00, cathedral 06:30-17:30- The house-church of Saint Elizabeth the Miracle-worker and the convent museum are opened for groups of pilgrims under the preliminary agreement. The excursions are held. The convent canteen: M-F 08:00-20:00, Sa 09:00-18:00, Su 10:00-17:00. A large Russian Orthodox convent in central Moscow. It is the main shrine of St. John the Baptist in the Russian capital.  
• 🌍 Church of the Archangel Gabriel (Храм архангела Гавриила), Arkhangelsky Lane, 15a (Metro: "Turgenevskaya", "Chistye Prudy"). 1707. Russian Orthodox The tower with two octagonal circles, the extended lower four-cornered circle and a square circle above it seem to run one into another if looked at from the inside of the Church. The Church is 26 m in height. The upper part is cross-shaped. The 18th-century sculpture decorations inside the Church, supporting the dome, mainly in the forechurch and choir lofts are very sumptuous. An altar plafond is encircled with fruit and flower swags with four angels standing in the dome corners.  
• 🌍 Church of Saint Nicholas in Klyoniki (Храм Николая Чудотворца в Клённиках), Basmanny district, Ulitsa Maroseyka, 3 (Metro: Kitay-Gorod 0.1 km W, Lubyanka 0.4km NW, Ploshchad' Revolyutsii 0.8km W). 1657. Russian Orthodox  
• 🌍 Church of the Martyr George the Victorious in Staryye Luchniki (Храм великомученика Георгия Победоносца в Старых Лучниках), Tverskoy district, Lubyanskiy proyezd, 9 (Metro: Kitay-Gorod 0.2 km S, Lubyanka 0.3 km NW, Kuznetskiy Most 0.7 km NW, Ploshchad' Revolyutsii 0.7 km W). 1694. Russian Orthodox  
• 🌍 Church of the Holy Trinity on the Mud (Храм Живоначальной Троицы на Грязех), Ulitsa Pokrovka, 13 (Metro: Chistye Prudy & Sretenskiy Bulvar 0.8 km NW or Kitay-Gorod 0.9 km W). 1861 Russian Orthodox  
• 🌍 Church of the Martyr Theodore of Stratelates (Храм великомученика Феодора Стратилата), Arkhangelskiy pereulok, 15А (Metro: Chistye Prudy 0.3 km N, Sretenskiy Bulvar 0.4 km N). 1806. Russian Orthodox