CHURCH COMPLEX FOR 500 PARISHIONERS OF THE COMPOUND OF THE PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUS AT SAINT MOSES THE BLACK CHURCH IN SOUTHERN BUTOVO

Project managers: Dmitry Ostroumov, Darya Chechko
Architects: Valery Turko, Galina Zhukovskaya, Evgenia Boglova, Ivan Kabush
3D artist: Egor Goncharov
Year: 2024

The Prohram Studio is developing the “Project” and “Working documentation” stages for the church complex of the Compound of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus at Saint Moses the Black Church.

The original design of the complex was developed by another studio. At the request of the customer, the changes were made to the external appearance of the church and the parish house, while preserving the general layout and arrangement.

We added the bas-reliefs and decorative elements in the Neo-Russian style to the previous design of the facades. It is assumed that the decoration will be made of stone and ceramics.

The complex already has a functioning wooden church and a parish house. Its reconstruction is planned for the future.

The church is designed as a single-story building with an asymmetrical layout and composition. The bell tower is located in the northwest corner of the building. It is off-center relative to the main west-east planning axis. This creates a balance in the architectural composition of the existing and designed buildings on the site. The bell tower is the vertical focus of the entire complex.

The church has one sanctuary and one dome. Its layout structure is formed around the rectangular central space. The side spaces of the prayer hall adjoin it from the north and south. They are separated from the quadrangle of the central part by supporting arches. On the eastern side, there is a one-altar sanctuary apse with a sacristy and a sexton's room. In the narthex, there is a candle and icon shop, a staircase to the choirs, and a bell tower ringing tier. This composition of simple volumes with traditional decorative elements references the architecture of Pskov and Novgorod, as well as the neo-Russian style of the early 20th century. The decoration includes figured profiles, white-stone bas-reliefs, and tiles. The shapes of the domes correspond to the general stylistic direction. Above the narthex, there is a bell tower. It has a tent-shaped top with a dome and a cross above the bell tier. The building's roof is pitched and consists of simple planes formed by gable tops on the building's facades.

The layout structure of the parish house during its reconstruction is dictated by the urban planning features of the site. The northern facade of the building runs along the boundary of permitted development. The rooms that the parish needs and the required evacuation stairs will be added to the east of the existing building. The engineering and technical rooms are located in the eastern part of the extension. After the reconstruction, the parish house will have three floors, without the basement. The first floor houses a refectory with the kitchen and auxiliary rooms, the cloakroom, the rooms for classes with children, the technical rooms, and the bathrooms for parishioners with an entrance from the north. The second floor houses rooms for Sunday school classes, a church meeting hall, and offices. The third floor houses the recreation rooms for the clergy.