The Kazan Icon of the Mother of God Church, also known as the Kazan Church, is a winter temple located on the Trade Square of Suzdal next to the Trade Rows. It was built in 1739. Nearby, just a few dozen meters away, stands the summer Resurrection Church, constructed in 1720.
The Kazan Church was added to the Resurrection Church and has undergone numerous changes. This low stone temple with two chapels and a deep apse to the east features a small side chapel. Both buildings are adorned with onion domes on low drums. Of particular interest is the metal crest resembling lace on the roof ridge.
The variety of forms of the altar apses in the ensemble of the two churches draws attention. The straight slope of the apse of the Resurrection Church harmoniously combines with the curved decorative covering of the apse of the Kazan Church and the spherical covering of the side chapel.
Inside the temple, the relics of Saints John and Theodore of Suzdal are kept. Local historians also suggest that the key keeper of the Nativity Monastery, Ananias Fyodorov, the author of the "Historical Collection on the God-Saving City of Suzdal," written in the 1770s, may have been buried in the Kazan Church.
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