Sorokosvyatskaya Church Photo: Sorokosvyatskaya Church

Sorokosvyatskaya the Church, or the Church of the Forty martyrs of Sebaste, located at the mouth of the Trubezh river, on the picturesque shore of lake Pleshcheyevo at the Fishing settlement. It was built on the donations of the Moscow merchants Selagine in 1775, probably in place of the former wooden one, known since the 1600's.The Church was closed in the late 1930-ies. Were used as workshops, maintained in order. In 1996 returned to the believers.

The place where the temple itself is very beautiful. And the high Church with elements of the Baroque style turns it into an original and memorable. Probably the best view of the temple opens from the opposite Bank of the Trubezh, Right from Quay street.

A powerful four the Church is crowned with five domes. It is noteworthy that the small heads are not located at the corners of the quadrangle, as usual, and on a small pediments installed on all four sides. This arrangement is typically used in wooden architecture, not stone.

The Church is a traditional three movements-axis. The building presents lined up the main volume with one large apse, the Banquet room and the bell tower. In the Church there is a warm side chapel of the Nativity of the virgin.

The decoration of the temple is distinguished by originality and intricacy. All three chains of the Windows of the main quadrangle, adorned with their, each one different frames.

High bell tower, topped by a spire, was built in the XIX century. Its design is clearly different from the main volume. It is expressed in rusticated walls of the lower tier, polukoshko and high arched openings of the upper tiers.

On the right Bank of the Trubezh river opposite the Church of the Forty martyrs of Sebaste before the arrival of Soviet power stood all saints Church, constituted with the first kind of couple.

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