"House Icon on Spiridonovka street is located in the center of Moscow. This cultural center is located next to the famous Ryabushinsky mansion and houses a Granite yard.

The Museum was opened in 2009. A decade took charge of the Museum Igor Votyakova in search of Orthodox values. Many relics were taken out in several waves of emigration from Russia. They were scattered all over the world. Has done a great job on search and acquisition of Orthodox relics. Collected over the years a collection of more than 2500 units – the undoubted masterpieces of icon painting skill. Among them: the virgin Hodegetria Georgian (15th century), St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (V. 16), the only surviving regiments of Tsar Nicholas II, a series of icons 17-19 centuries, icons of the 16th century, Fayum portrait of the 4th century, a number of fixed icons of the early 20th century.

The house Icon is not just a Museum, but also cultural and educational centre. Monthly themed exhibitions, lectures and master classes. Classes for pupils of Sunday schools.Critics have prepared an interesting program, which interest not only children but also parents.

The first exhibition opened in October 2009, was called "Atheists. And if Christ was? ". She talked about the activities created in the Soviet anti-Religious state Committee designed to deal with "priests, churches and religion."In December opened a new exhibition – "the Home icon. Typically, these icons can only see very close to the family people, friends. Famous people of the country decided on a week to their transfer to the Museum housing the relics to be viewed by anyone.

On Christmas eve, the Museum held an amazing exhibition of ecclesiastical embroidery. Each of the works made by the masters of the St. Tikhon University, was embroidered over a year. They used the finest silk, silver and gold thread, a real pearl. Technology like this embroidery was lost after 1917. The art of pictorial embroidery restored the paintings Dating back to the 15th century.