The Church in the Name of St. Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow: milestones of history

The church in the name of St. Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow, was built in the 1900s by the famous architect Aplaksin. By 1917, the temple was an important center of the spiritual, social and charitable life of the capital of Russia. In the Soviet period, a whole host of new martyrs served in the church: Archpriest Christopher Bartholomeev, Archbishop Gavriil (Voevodin), Archimandrite Varlaam (Satserdotsky), etc. In the 1920s Peter’s Church was the main church of the famous Alexander Nevsky Brotherhood. The church was closed in 1929, and its building was used as a factory. In the early 2000s, St. Peter’s Church was revived, and once again it became one of the centers of spiritual and charitable activities of the “Northern Capital”.