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 characteristic of small warm churches of the 19th century. The low building with an octagonal dome roof has diagonal facets that are narrower than the others and is topped with a cupola with a bowl-shaped base on a blind drum. The refectory and altar are almost equal in width to the main volume, with a narrower and lower narthex adjoining from the west. The horizontal ties of the entablature transition from the altar and refectory to the main building, separating its upper third, which is perceived as an attic tier. On the blind wall of this tier, on the side facades, there are pediments of four-column porticos of the lower part of the building. The side walls of the altar and refectory each have one window in arched niches, and in the altar, the decor is complemented by horizontal ribbon rustications at the bottom of the wall. The eastern facade of the rectangular altar with three window axes is decorated similarly to the side walls of the main volume. The main building is covered with a gentle sail vault, while the refectory and altar have barrel vaults with arches above the windows. The interior decoration has been updated multiple times. The oil painting in the refectory was done in the 20th century, and the iconostasis was also assembled in the 20th century. Its carved columns from the 19th century are made in the forms of Russian style, and the icons date back to the 19th-20th centuries.
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