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SLOBODISHCHE MOSCOW OBLAST Latitude and Longitude:

55°30′23″N 38°51′31″E / 55.50639°N 38.85861°E / 55.50639; 38.85861
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Slobodishche. Old Believers' Our Lady of Kazan wooden church
Slobodishche. Ruins of arched gates

Slobodishche ( Russian: Слободи́ще) is a village of 327 people (1997) in the Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, on the Guslitsa River ( Nerskaya's tributary) some 93 kilometers (58 mi) southeast of Moscow. It is municipally a part of the Ilyinskoye Rural Settlement (whose administrative center is Ilyinsky Pogost). First mentioned in 1674, it is in the historical area of Guslitsa (formerly Guslitskaya volost). The Old Believers' ( Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church) Our Lady of Kazan wooden church was built here around 1881.


55°30′23″N 38°51′31″E / 55.50639°N 38.85861°E / 55.50639; 38.85861