Located in the former riverside royal estate park in the suburb area of Moscow, the complex of Kolomenskoye Church is a lovely place to visit for afternoon walking. After a very long subway ride, the Kolomenskoye Park was very near to the subway entrance with clear sign for direction or just followed the tree. The first monument I saw was the big gate with lovely half cut onion dome-like wooden roof, the gate has two doors, the bigger one for royalties and the smaller one for commoners. After the gate I saw the lovely blue onion domes church, at first I misunderstood that this church was the Kolomenskoye Church until I discovered more area in the park.

Just a short walk inside the forest park from the blue domes church, I encountered the very large white gate with green copper spire roof. The gate was really nice like the gate of Disney amusement park, but behind the gate was a very big white church not the princess castle, and again two different size of doors. The big white church I saw was the famous Kolomenskoye Church, the building itself was considered the Russian architecture masterpiece and the first brick church in this country. For me this place was just another big lovely Russian styled church, a white version of the famous Saint Basil Cathedral without smaller chapel of fancy onion domes, but I understood its importance and significance for architectural development.

Unfortunately that the interior was closed during my visit, and personally I quite preferred the nearby cute bell tower more than the church. While I was walking around, there was a monk playing the semantron, this was my first time I heard the semantron and it was lovely to hear this musical instrument sound. In my opinion, Kolomenskoye is not the must see for short visitor, the Novodevichy Convent is a better recommendation and many churches in Kremlin Wall will already show you the Russian masterpieces, but if you want to visit, I guarantee you will have a nice time in this lovely park.