Россия. Энергия созядания. Колокольный звон в храме Свт. Николая в Хамовниках. Church of St. Nicholas in Khamovniki.

First records of a presumably wooden church on this site are dated 1625. The main five-domed church was built in 1679-1682; bell tower and refectory were completed around 1694. Present day church sources claim that the bell tower in Khamovniki is one of the highest tent-style bell towers in Moscow region.[1] In 1757 the builders added a side annex dedicated to Saint Dmitry of Rostov. The church is an example of late Muscovite Baroque that preceded short-lived Naryshkin Baroque of 1690s. It belongs to a num