God in the city of Mammon

The Russian post doesn't work (more documents seem to get lost than are delivered), and the Russian bureaucracy requires so many documents signed in order to effect a simple payment to a subcontractor (to ensure - so they think - that nobody can steal money from the treasury, while oligarchs steal billions) that it is necessary to go to the offices of everyone you work for in order to sign documents if you want to get paid. It is a ludicrous waste of time, but is universal in Russia; one of the costs of a system in which trust is wholly absent.

Today I made such a journey and it took me past this church which I have looked at before but never, until prompted by blipfoto, taken a picture of. It is near Mendelevskaya metro station. The temperature was about 27C and a late afternoon thunderstorm was coming on. I did not stop to find out to whom the church is dedicated, though I am not sure it matters. God is the "ultimate beneficiary" as Russian tax lawyers say in a different context.