Church of Alexander Nevsky in Berezovka
By the time the first settlers arrived in Berezovka, Christianity was already widespread in the district. In the 1840s and 1850s, Upper and Lower Berezovka were part of the lands of Prince Sergey Grigorievich Golitsyn. A…
Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Belavino
The village of Belavino, located by a pond, was previously called Yamskaya Sloboda, where "yam hunters" lived. The sloboda existed even during Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich's reign. Until the mid-17th century, the Belavino chur…
Church of the Holy Trinity in Arefino
The village of Arefino in the Vachsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region was once the largest in the area and included several independent settlements: the village of Arefino, the hamlet of Ozyablkovo, the Zablitsky …
Church of the Entrance of the Lord in Jerusalem in Arefino (Lost)
The names of villages and settlements were usually given by local residents based on geographical features, surnames commonly found in the settlement, historical events, or the names of parishes and priests. It can be as…
Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Alexandrov
Previously, the village was part of the Murom district of Vladimir province. The first mentions of the church in Alexandrov appear in the revenue books of 1676, where it is referred to as the Nikolskaya. It is unclear wh…
Church of the Nativity of Christ in Khmelovaya
The village of Khmelovaya is located in the Varnavinsky district. According to the order of the Department for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Heritage of Nizhny Novgorod and the Nizhny Novgorod Region dated Ap…
The Church of Macarius of Unzha and Zheltovodsk in Makarye
Documents from 1628 confirm the existence of a church in Pritykin dedicated to Macarius the Miracle Worker, which has not survived to this day. The remaining temple was built in 1842 next to a wooden church. Its architec…
Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Krasnaya Dolina
The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin is an Orthodox church that is part of the Shchigry and Manturovo diocese of the Kursk Metropolis. It is located in the village of Krasnaya Dolina in the Kastorensky Distr…
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Lapshanga
Lapshanga is a village in the Varnaninsky district, mentioned in N.V. Morokhin's "Nizhny Novgorod Toponymic Dictionary." It has two names: one derives from the Lapshanga River, a right tributary of the Vetluga, near the …
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Kuligino (Lost)
The Nikolaev church in the village of Nikolskoye Shuda was made of stone, with a bell tower of the same material, and was built in 1840 thanks to the efforts of the parishioners. The fence around the church was also made…
