The Church of St. Nicholas at line is an Orthodox Church from the late 13th century, as well as a unique monument stone architecture of Novgorod the Great. The main altar was consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, and the limit – in honor of St. Clement.

Beautiful view of the Church opens from the Eastern shore, because in this area you can see the last monument of medieval Novgorod – the Church of St. Nicholas. The famous Church was built in 1292 by the Archbishop Clement. The Church of St. Nicholas is not only the only remnant of the ancient Lipno monastery, but is among the most outstanding monuments of Novgorod architecture.

As mentioned, the construction of the Church began in 1292. The Church was founded in the 8 km South from the town of Novgorod, namely on the island of Lipno and the river Plotnitsa in the Delta of the river Msta.

According to some reports in 1113 was acquired by the icon of St. Nicholas, which was written in a large round Board. According to the legend, this icon was completely healed Novgorod the great Prince Mstislav Vladimirovich. Most likely, it was after this event a little later 1113 was built a monastery and a wooden Church, although accurate data about these events have still not been found.

Stone Church, founded in 1292 and was completed in 1294, was the first stone Church that was built in the Novgorod region after the great invasion of the Mongol-Tatars to Russia. During the construction of the temple architects increasingly focused on one of the modern in those days of pre-Mongolian churches, namely the Church of the Nativity, located in peryn hill. For this reason, in the late 12th – early 13th centuries clearly emerged new ways of development, concerning the Novgorod architecture. In this kind of buildings there have been attempts to rethink and replace the familiar old scheme of temple buildings, which are pretended in the life of Novgorod architects of the second half of the 12th century. In addition, this trend of transformation was developed until the first half of the 14th century. Among the new buildings especially the place of the Church of St. Nicholas on line. In this Church the first time you can see the new construction equipment. Compared to the more ancient technique, which consisted of alternating rows of stone and bricks in lime mortar mixed with brick-zamanki, the Church of St. Nicholas largely composed of Volkhov slabs on mortar of sand, lime. In the masonry of St. Nicholas Church in some places applied more and more advanced brick elongated shape. This system of masonry will soon become a characteristic feature of the stone of Novgorod architecture of the 14th and 15th centuries.

Church architect chose to follow the builders of the Church Iranskogo skete and abandoned the old system cupola coatings. He moved to three-lobed completion of a building which is a distinctive feature of almost all the famous monuments of Novgorod architecture of the 14th and 15th centuries. The architect of the Church of St. Nicholas decided to change the divisions of the facades blades that will become characteristic of the architecture of the first half of the 14th century. To create the artistic image of the Church of St. Nicholas, were applied elongated proportions, and became one of the characteristic monuments of Novgorod 14-15 centuries. In the temple with special distinctness made features, which indicated the beginning of a complete rethinking of past architectural traditions.

As for the frescoes of the Church of St. Nicholas on line, almost until his death in 1941 to 1943 she was disguised as masking record, which was held in 1877. Only small fragments of the great wall paintings of the 13th century, who were able to avoid the restoration of the 19th century, were found when the complete disassembly of the iconostasis in 1930. Fresco painting of the Church of St. Nicholas was the intermediate link between Novgorod painting still pre-Mongol period and a fine painting of the second half of the 14th century. Elongated figures are more moving pieces and also easily and freely slipping folds of the robe around the human figure, said that in the painting in the Church of St. Nicholas of 13-14 centuries, for the most part has been described new phenomena emerging in the Novgorod painting after 50-60 years.