The church is located on a hill in the center of the village, next to the road and cemetery. It was built in 1806 and 1819 with funds from landowner I.I. Suponev, replacing a burned wooden church. The village, located near the Kirzhach River, was gifted by Ivan IV to Boris Godunov, whose family owned it until the end of the 17th century.
In 1806, the southern warm chapel was erected, facing the ravine, and in 1819, the main volume of the church. At that time, the brick walls were painted blue, and decorative elements were highlighted with whitewash.
In 1879, preserving the forms of the original decoration, a northern chapel with a baptistery on the western side was added, which was aligned with the narrow lower tier of the bell tower. The upper tiers of the bell tower were dismantled in 1965.
The church is a characteristic example of a rural temple in the early classicism style, although the composition of the main volume and altar still shows baroque features.
A cubic base with two windows supports a wide octagon, topped with pediments. The steep eight-pitched roof is crowned with an onion dome on a blind drum with an apple and cross. The parallel walls of the main altar, lowered and narrowed relative to the cube, connect to the apse with concave inserts. The semicircular apses of the chapels embrace the western part of the cube, partially covering its side facades. Almost all corners of the volumes dating from the first quarter of the 19th century are decorated with rusticated pilasters that transition into a frieze.
A wide cornice encircles the volumes of the chapels and refectory. Its upper moldings, separated by sparse dentils, rest on Tuscan pilasters in the lower tier of the bell tower and on the northern facade. The cornices of the main altar and octagon are made in a similar style.
The northwestern corner of the baptistery is designed in a baroque style, with a protruding edge. All windows of the lower tier are rectangular, partially false, in framed casings with ears and a horizontal multi-profiled architrave on low curved supports. The architraves of the side arched portals rest on archivolts. The upper light windows on the cube are round and narrow. The bell tower arch has a flattened framed portal with imposts and a keystone, similarly designed are the windows of the octagon.
From the main volume, covered by an eight-pitched vault, a wide arch leads to the altar with a faceted conch and arches above the windows. In the chapel apses, the conches are standard, in a quarter sphere.
In the preserved tier of the bell tower with massive corner supports, the vault is cross-shaped.
On the eastern face of the octagon inside the church, part of the composition "Resurrection" has been preserved, and on the walls of the cube, ornamental painting from the mid-19th century. The floors are laid with ceramic tiles.
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