The Church of the Holy Trinity at the Borisovo Ponds (храм Троицы в Орехове-Борисове) is a metochion of the

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on the Kashira Highway in Orekhovo-Borisovo, a residential

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in South

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. It was built in 2001–2004 to a

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design by Vladimir Kolosnitsyn, an architect favored by Mayor of Moscow,

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. Apart from the 70-metre-tall main church, the compound includes a

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, a free-standing prothesis, a zvonnitsa, and a

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. The interior has an

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made of

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and the academic wall paintings by Vasily Nesterenko. The church was originally slated to be erected in 1988, in commemoration of the millennium of the

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, but those plans did not materialize until 15 years later.

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