Preobrazhensky Val Street, Moscow City (Eastern) Russia
Common Faith (Russian Orthodox)
Originally home to the Fedoseevsky break-away group from the Old Believers, Metropolitan Philaret opened the St Nicholas Monastery of Common Faith here in 1866. Common Faith is an intermediate point between Old Believers and the Russian Orthodox Church. There were 22 monks and 41 lay brothers in 1907. Monastery icons are from the 14th-17th centuries. The monastery was closed in the early 1920s and the library is now in the State Historical Museum. Some of the icons are in the Tretyakov Gallery, including "The Nativity of Nicholas with his Life" from 1601. Walls and towers were demolished in the 1930s for expansion of the cemetery. The bell tower and surviving walls were restored from 1977 to the 1980s.