The Chapel of the Kazan Mother of God is located in the old cemetery, in a sacred grove, between the villages of Tatar Mountain and Kostina Mountain. It belongs to two-part chapels with equal width and height. The chapel is a log structure with five walls on a low foundation, including a prayer room and a vestibule. The roof is gabled, with a hexagonal bell tower above the vestibule.
Previously, the volumetric-planning composition of the chapel was complemented by a log porch with a western entrance, which is now lost. Lighting is provided by windows on the northern and southern walls. The walls of the chapel are log-built: the three lower crowns are made "in the round," and above, "in rectangular paws"; inside they are fully hewn without rounding corners, and outside they are covered with horizontal planks attached with factory nails, featuring a decorative base. The roof is of the rafter type, with rafters inserted through two crowns, covered with a nail roof made of two layers of hewn boards. The floor is single, made of logs placed perpendicular to the entrance, on a single round beam. The ceiling, judging by the traces, was a trapezoidal or octagonal dome-vault. The windows are three-arched, with the junction of the arches "in quarter," and with the windowsill, "straight."
The doors to the main room are three-arched, with the junction of the arches "in quarter," and with the threshold, "straight." The doors to the vestibule are two-arched, with the junction of the arches, with logs at the top and threshold "at right angles" and with a board top plate, joined "in a scarf."
The bell tower above the vestibule, partially encompassing the main room, is made of round logs "in rectangular paws," with one axial and six peripheral columns, covered with boards imitating arched openings and fenced with vertical square bars.
The roof of the bell tower is a hexagonal cap with rafters resting on a single-layer stone binding, crowned with a "onion" in the form of a hexagonal parallelepiped with filled coffers and a cross, which is now lost.
The Chapel of the Kazan Mother of God, located in the old cemetery, in a sacred grove, between the villages of Tatar Mountain and Kostina Mountain, built in the late 19th century, represents historical and architectural value due to the preservation of the overall design and its important role in the system of cult buildings of the villages of Kostina Mountain and Tatar Mountain.
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