The Epiphany Church in Gonchary is now located on the border of the historical center of Kolomna, indicating its former position on the outskirts, and even earlier, outside the city. In ancient times, there was a village called Babyshevo, owned by Princess Evdokia, the wife of Dmitry Donskoy. The first mentions of Babyshevo date back to the 14th century. After Kolomna joined the Moscow principality, Prince Ivan Kalita bequeathed it to his wife, which established the tradition of passing the village to the wives of great princes. During the Battle of Kulikovo, Babyshevo belonged to the future saint Euphrosinia, and then to her daughter-in-law Sophia Vitovtovna and granddaughter Maria Yaroslavna. However, at that time, there was no church in Babyshevo, at least no information about it has survived. It is likely that the first church was built by the next owner of the village, Sophia Paleolog, the daughter of the last Byzantine emperor and wife of Ivan III. According to legend, she struggled to conceive and prayed in the churches of Kolomna and its surroundings, including the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, where she was visited by Saint Sergius. Soon after, she gave birth to an heir, the future Vasily III. In honor of this event and her vows, Sophia Paleolog ordered the construction of a wooden church in Babyshevo, consecrated in honor of the Conception of Saint Anna. In the 16th century, Kolomna expanded, and Babyshevo became part of the Goncharnaya sloboda, where potters and brickmakers lived, building the walls of the Kolomna Kremlin at the command of Vasily III. With the transformation of the village into a sloboda, the tradition of princely ownership ceased, and the place became diocesan land. At the end of the 16th century, the wooden church burned down, like many other wooden structures. It is possible that this was not the church built by Sophia Paleolog, but its 'successor', as the Goncharnaya sloboda burned several times. How many times the church burned and was restored is unknown, but during one of the fires, a miracle occurred. Saint Philaret, born here, recounted that in ancient times there was a wooden Conception Church, which housed the icon of the Uncreated Image of the Savior from the village of Mityaevo. After the fire that destroyed the church, the icon miraculously survived in the ashes. In memory of this event, a new church was built in place of the burned one in honor of the Uncreated Image of the Lord, and the church became known as the Spassky Church. In 1649, the sloboda officially became part of the Kolomna settlement. The Epiphany Church remained one of the few churches where services continued even in the most difficult times for the Church and the country. After the Great Patriotic War, the church received the status of the cathedral of the Krutitsy and Kolomna diocese, as most churches had been closed by that time. In this quiet area of the Moscow region, prayer life continued, and Moscow archbishops served here, in the church that became the spiritual home for one of the prominent figures of the Russian Church.