Church of the Archangel Michael in Moscow

The large five-hipped temple was built in 1894-1897. as the main temple of the Clinical Campus of Moscow University on Devichye Pole. The construction of the clinical campus was officially completed with the consecration of the church. Its parishioners were doctors, service personnel, patients, students and residents of the adjacent streets. The design of the location of the temple is striking. It stands at the beginning of the inner alley of the clinical town (on both sides built up with medical institutions) near the obstetric clinic, where babies were born into the world, who were often baptized in this church. Here a new life began - physical and spiritual. And the alley was completed by the chapel of St. Demetrius of Prilutsky, where the funeral service for the dead was performed in clinics: the chapel stood near the Pathological Institute, against which the alley rests. That is why this long, narrow alley was called “the alley of life”: it symbolized the life path of a person from his birth to the world and to death, which began and ended with an Orthodox church.