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MOSCOW CHURCHES

 
 

Below is a table of data showing the number of churches, altars and chapels in each section of Moscow as of 1917 and their disposition as of 1990, active, existing but in other uses, and destroyed. This information is on Page 7 of Volume 1 of Sorok Sorokov published in Moscow by Kniga i Biznes in 1997. According to this data 51% of the total number of churches in greater Moscow were destroyed. Only 45.5 percent of those in Kremlin were destroyed, no doubt due to the historic significance of so many.. The figures for the other areas are - Kitai-gorod 52% - Beli-gorod 62% - Zemli-gorod 57% - South across the river 46% - suburb in 1917 51% - outer Moscow 37% - and Old Believer and foreign 62%. More striking is that for the whole city only 20% of the churches were operational as of 1990 and that included some reopened after 1986. For Kitai Gorod they show only one out of the former 27 churches operational and it is the Kazan Cathedral that was destroyed by Stalin and rebuilt only in 1990.

  
   
     
Section of
Moscow		 1917 1990
Active Existing Destroyed
churches altars chapel churches altars chapel churches altars chapels churches altars chapels
Kremlin and
monasteries		 145 241 16 47 96 2 33 67 2 66 88 13
Kitai-gorod 27 56 8 1 2 0 12 41 0 14 13 8
Beli-gorod 76 185 4 5 11 0 24 61 2 47 113 2
Zemli-gorod 101 246 3 10 32 0 34 75 1 58 141 2
Zamoskvarechie 50 126 2 12 36 0 16 39 0 23 51 18
To 1917 boundary 278 527 25 38 98 2 109 190 7 141 202 18
To 1960 boundary 87 160 16 42 110 0 14 26 1 32 29 15
Old believer
and foreign		 84 79 4 16 10 4 21 28 2 52 42 0
TOTAL 848 1620 78 171 395 8 263 527 15 433 679 60

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