Moloskovitsa

Moloskovitsy lay in western Ingria, where a Lutheran community was established under Swedish rule in the 1630s. A stone church built in 1632 became the center of its parish. Its white limestone gave it the popular name of the White Church, or Valkeakirkko. The village appears as Moloskowits on a map compiled from Swedish material of 1676; a later map of 1770 used the name Belaya Kirka, also referring to the white church. In 1834 Moloskovitsy was mapped with twenty-nine peasant households beside the church settlement.