Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
The five-domed Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, built in 1776 with funds from parishioners, was dismantled in 1974, with only its 19th-century northern chapel remaining. To the east is a long two-story almshou…
Chapel of St. Elizabeth the Martyr in Oryol
The chapel in honor of the Great Princess Elizabeth Feodorovna is located in the north-eastern corner tower of the monastery's fence, built in the 1850s, while the chapel itself was arranged in the 2000s.
In the mid-19t…
Transfiguration Church in Lukha
The church is located in the cemetery southwest of the city. It was built in 1797 from brick and covered with lime plaster. Around the cemetery, a stone fence and monumental gates with an attic and a massive pediment, er…
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the Monastery of the Life-Giving Cross
The chapel was erected in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos and consecrated on September 27, 2012. Here is material from the newspaper "Orthodox Petrovsk" from September 2012, based on data from the Ivan…
Chapel of the Men's Monastery of the Life-Giving Cross at the Cross Pogost
The chapel has a square plan with a side length of a fathom along the outer walls. The low building is topped with a late gable roof. The southern entrance and false windows on the western and eastern sides, imitating a …
Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the Holy Assumption Monastery in Oryol
The construction of a new cathedral in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God began in 1999 on the territory of the Holy Assumption Men's Monastery in Oryol. The church is designed as a large brick five-domed struc…
Dimitry of Thessaloniki and Mitrophan of Voronezh Temple Complex
Located 2 km north of the village, on the edge of a pine forest. The western part of the territory, surrounded by a fence with towers from the 19th century, is occupied by a cemetery, while all the buildings of the compl…
Church of Dmitry of Thessalonica in Dmitrievsky Pogost
The Church of Dmitry of Thessalonica is built of brick, plastered, and whitewashed. In the 19th century, an eastern portico was added, and at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, a porch with a canopy appeared at the sou…
Trinity Church of the Holy Assumption Monastery in Oryol
The Church of the Holy Trinity, located on the grounds of the Holy Assumption Men's Monastery, was built between 1843 and 1845 as a family burial vault for the Kochubeys. The funds for its construction were provided by S…
Church of Mitrophan of Voronezh in Dmitrievsky Pogost
The Church of Mitrophan of Voronezh is built of brick, covered with plaster and whitewashed. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a western narthex was added to it. This modest monument of late classicism is charac…
