Church of the Intercession on the Nerl
855 years ago, on October 14, 1165, the construction of the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl was completed.
The Church of the Intercession on the Nerl is considered the pinnacle of the craftsmanship of Vladimir ar…
Vysokovsky Assumption Male Monastery
Cossack Grigory Ivanov of the Yekaterinoslav Don Cossack Army left for the Old Believer Komarovsky skete at the age of 38, where he took monastic vows under the name Gerasim and lived for 10 years. In 1784, he, along wit…
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of the Vysokovsk Uspensky Monastery
On the border with the Kostroma region, in the Koverninsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region, on a high bank of the Utrusy River, surrounded by forests, lies the Vysokovsk-Uspensky Monastery, founded in the early 19…
Bell Tower of the Vysokovsky Assumption Monastery
On the border with the Kostroma region, in the Koverninsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region, on a high bank of the Utrusy River amidst forests lies the Vysokovsky Assumption Monastery, founded in the early 19th cen…
Alexander Nevsky Church in Pravdinsk
The wooden church-chapel, built on a metal frame in 2000-2001 at the initiative of the Afghanistan Veterans Fund, is a cubic structure with a high four-pitched roof. Above the narthex is a bell tower. The architecture of…
Church of the Meeting of the Lord in Kubentsevo
The village of Kubentsevo in the Balakhna district was the eastern boundary of the lands of Prince D. M. Pozharsky in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Here he built a church in honor of the Meeting of the Lord to commemorate …
Chapel-Lighthouse in Balakhna
On July 3, 2015, during an archpastoral visit to Balakhna, Metropolitan Georgy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas consecrated a chapel dedicated to the holy righteous princes Peter and Fevronia, the Murom miracle workers. Th…
Church of the Icon of the Mother of God 'Sign' in Balakhna
The Sign Stone Church is located near the Varni, on Bolshaya Street, which leads from the fortress to the Yaroslavl exit. This temple combines two churches: the Friday Church and the Elevation Church. The first of them e…
Ipatiev House
The house on Vznesenskaya Hill was acquired in 1908 and soon equipped with all the modern conveniences of the time: a bathroom with a water heating column, electricity, and a telephone. At that time, such "luxury" was ra…
Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands in Balakhna
The church was built in 1668 with funds from the salt industrialist from Balakhna, G. E. Dobrynin. In 1690, it burned down, but it was restored in 1702 and 1704. The domes were covered with tiles, and a tent-shaped bell …
