Tagansky, Moscow City (Central) Russia
Russian Orthodox
The church, built in 1652 at the monastery hospital, is in the north-west corner of the monastery complex. The crypt beneath the church was used as an infamous torture chamber. The church was open longer than most following the Bolshevik Revolution, Divine Liturgy continuing until 1926. While the rest of the monastery was used as a prison the Nicholas church was a warehouse for confiscated furniture and potatoes. The monastery itself, founded in the early 1300s, was the oldest in the Moscow Kremlin. In 1491 it was moved to the left bank of the Moskva River. During the Soviet years it was used as a prison, a drunk tank, then an art restoration institute, before being returned to the church in 1991.