The village of Repenskoe, located on the Repenka River, has an ancient history. The first mention of it dates back to 1389, when Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy bequeathed it to his wife, Yevdokiya Dmitrievna.
Exact information about the time of construction of the first church in the village has not survived. However, from an ancient manuscript that was previously in the church, it is known that the Kolomna books of 1572 mentioned the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity and the warm Church of the Nativity of the Virgin. On the church grounds were the houses of the priest, deacons, and prosphora makers, as well as thirteen household plots. In 1680, an altar dedicated to the Prophet Elijah was added to the wooden Trinity Church. Over time, a settlement formed around the church, primarily inhabited by coachmen. The village merged with the city, becoming the Yamskaya Sloboda, and the church was named Trinity on the Yamki. In 1696, a stone church in the Moscow Baroque style was built on the site of the wooden church. It had five domes, with carved brickwork and kokoshniks on the roof. To the west of the church stood a tent-shaped bell tower. The original Trinity Church resembled the Church of Nikola-na-Posade. Later, during reconstruction, the brick carvings were removed, the top of the square was covered with a vault, and the kokoshniks were taken down. The church now has one dome. In 1816, the bell tower was connected to the square of the warm refectory, where the altars of the Prophet Elijah and the Nativity of the Virgin were restored. Celebrations were also held here in honor of the holy martyrs Flora and Lavra, who were prayed to for the protection of horses, and on All Saints' Day, shining in the Russian land. It is believed that these altars were located in the refectory part of the church. On the feast day of Flora and Lavra, the residents of Yamskaya Sloboda brought decorated horses to the church for the water blessing service. Horses were an important part of the life of the coachmen and the sloboda. During the Soviet era, the church building was used as a workshop for producing mustard, horseradish, and starch, and later it housed a restoration workshop. Almost all frescoes and paintings were destroyed, and the main altar was buried under cement and debris. In May 1998, the church was handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church, and its restoration began. On August 31, the feast day of Flora and Lavra, the first Divine Liturgy was held in the Ilyinsky chapel. In November 1998, a Sunday school opened. Before Easter in 1999, the church received a set of bells from Voronezh, and in 2004, another bell from Yekaterinburg. The exterior appearance of the Holy Trinity Church has been fully restored. A wrought-iron fence has been installed around it. In 2004, a new church-parish school was built on the site of the destroyed one, where Sunday and music schools operate, and city olympiads are held. Since 2005, courses on the Basics of Orthodox Culture for teachers in the southeastern region of the Moscow region have been taught here. Inside the church, the refectory part has been fully restored, and the main altar is decorated with paintings in the style of the 16th century.
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