St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Moscow

Presnensky District, Russia

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Moscow, located in the Presnensky District, is a brick Gothic Revival structure completed in 1883 by architect Richard Knill Freeman. It stands as the sole Anglican church in Moscow and one of only two in Russia, continuing a tradition of English worship that began in 1553 when Tsar Ivan the Terrible granted the Russia Company permission to conduct services according to their beliefs. The church endured a turbulent twentieth century: its tower served as a Bolshevik machine gun post during the October Revolution, and after confiscation in 1920, the building was repurposed variously as a hostel and recording studio under Soviet rule. Religious services resumed in 1991, and following Queen Elizabeth II's 1994 visit, the Russian government restored the building to Anglican use, with the recording company Melodiya departing in 2001. The parsonage, constructed in 1894, remains an integral part of the complex.