The Church was built in 1657 (the lower Church of St. Nicholas) in Pokrovka Street in Klyonniki, the maple grove (some people think that the word "klyonniki" was transformed from the word "blinniki" in the 18th century), close to the wooden Church of St. Simeon of the Wonderful Mountain built by Tsar Ivan III in 1468 (the Church has not preserved).
In 1690, the upper storey (of Our Lady of Kazan) was added. After the 1701 fire, the upper part of the Church was dismantled; the lower was transformed into the ground floor; a high upper room with an altar and a forechurch were added. From the south a new side chapel of Our Lady of Kazan was attached. A bell tower was built in 1748–1749. In 1748–1749, the Church was restored after the fire. In 1853, 1868, and 1894, facades and other things were rebuilt.
In 1893–1923, archpriest Alexey Mechev, the Moscow confessor and monk, was a rector of the Church. After his deaf in 1923, his son archpriest Sergey Mechev became a rector and created a communal parish. In 1929, he was arrested and died in a prison camp. Both pastors are famed in the community of Saints.
The Church was built in Baroque style. It is quadrangle with a bipartite altar ledge. The windows architraves have disrupted triangle and clustered gables. The ground floor walls have been preserved from the original building. A three-storey bell tower features stucco wreaths on the pilasters' capitals.
In 1927, the Church was reconstructed; the original exterior decoration (lost in the 18th–19th centuries during the reconstruction works) and architraves of the lower church (from the south and north) were restored. A side chapel of St. Alexey is arranged downwards; it has four iconostases (three templon iconostases and one is made of white stone with thin carving).
In 1932, the Church was closed, the dome was removed. The building was rebuilt for purposes of the Central Committee of the Communist Union of Youth. In 1990, the Church was returned to Russian Orthodox Church.
The main altar table is of St. Nicholas, the side chapels are of Our Lady of Kazan, of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land, of St. Alexey, the monk of Moscow, and of St. Sergius.
Shrines: the specially honoured Our Lady of St. Theodore, the icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh with relics, the icon of St. Theodosius Totemsky with relics, the icon of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land, the icon of St. Alexey, the monk of Moscow, with relics.
The Church has an icon painting school and a library.
The now-existing SS. Cosmas and Damian Church in Maroseyka Street was built in 1793. However, a church had already existed at the same place before. Thus two churches are distinguished: the old and the new one.
It is not known for sure when and by whom the old SS. Cosmas and Damian Church was built. It is known for certainty though that the chur...
A historical district of Moscow's Bely Gorod (White City), between Myasnitskaya Street and the Yauza River, including Maroseyka (Pokrovka) Street, was developed later than other parts of White City. Historians M. Tikhomirov and P. Sytin agree that there was a pine forest until the late 15th century. This fact is evidenced by nearby churches named "...
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