Resurrection Church in the village Empty Sunday Photo: Church of the resurrection in the village Empty Sunday

Church of the Resurrection or the Empty temple of the Resurrection is located in a village called Empty Sunday in Skodinski Pytalovo municipality district. The erection of the Church occurred in 1496. Originally the temple had vosmiletnie overlap, it was later replaced by a hipped roof. Previously existing form of coverage restored in the process of restoration; the Church walls were plastered. At the Church of the Resurrection cemetery. The construction of the temple is closely associated with the name of Theodoret.

According to ancient legend, the Church at the time was ravaged by Polish king Stefan Batory. After the destruction of the temple was restored on the feast of the Resurrection of the Lord, after whom it was consecrated. Before our time came a legend that explains the second name of the temple. In ancient times, no one person did not know about the existence of this temple, because the surrounding area was completely covered with impenetrable forests. So happened that got lost in the woods someone's horses, which were tied tin cans as a call. Horses has not been able to find but some time he heard a noise from lopotev. Once people went to the sound, they immediately saw the lost horses, which stood in the inner part of the unknown Church. The Church was completely empty, then there was his second birth.

At the moment the temple is situated on the outskirts of the village, namely the churchyard, near a large pond. As for composition scheme, the temple represented within and without columns, four of which are overridden by a two-stage system of arches or vaults with a slight increase toward the light of the drum. Choose the arch spanned from the Northern to the southern part and connected at the top with the help of stepped arches that spanned from the Eastern to the Western side directly to the base of the drum, made in the form of a sailboat. The temple altar in plan it is deep, and the height in less than half of the quadrangle. In interior design there are a lot of resonator holes, which are located in the tympanum of the arch vaults, as well as in the sanctuary and light in the sails of the drum.

The decoration of the facades is made quite traditionally: division blades made on three parts, and each part ends in the Pskov style, namely the extreme parts are completed double arches and medium - lobed completion. On the East side of the Church facade is smooth. South, West and North facades are separated by the blades and not reach the ground, to finish just above the portals. The Foundation of the Church's facades are made smooth. Light drum is made entirely of stone to the top of the "eyebrows" above the window. In the upper part lined with wooden frame under the nail fastening Church ceramic belt, which is equipped along its rollers not only in the upper part, but in bottom. Choose cushions, as well as letters of the inscription is completely covered in green paint, the background is made of red and unglazed.

Not only the interior but the exterior architectural monument has originally made a calcareous coating. In the Church of the resurrection of Christ there is no wall paintings. Iconostasis of the Church did not survive to modern times. The erection of the Church carried out using local limestone slabs.

In the mid-18th century, when the Church was found in the shaded woods, there has been some restructuring, which slightly changed the original appearance of the temple. First of all, was broken through a new doorway on the South side of the temple. Instead of the lost arch the device was placed flat rolled forward in light drum.

Simple restoration works were held in the Church with the support of the Pskov SNCM during 1963. During the works were restored ancient stone structures voimistelu coverage. Also was updated truss system equipped with gutters on all the corners. The conducted work has not touched interior architectural monuments, all preserved in their original form.

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