The Christmas church from the village of Peredki has a cross-shaped plan and three altars. It stands on a high base and is topped with a tall tent. In the late 17th century, two additional tents appeared on the sides, crowning small octagons on quadrilaterals.
The church is surrounded by an open gallery on five sides: north, northwest, west, southwest, and south. The gallery rests on brackets that extend from the main log structure. On the northwest and southwest sides, the gallery has straight lines that do not follow the contours of the church walls.
On the west side, in front of the gallery, there is a porch. The branches of the log cross are covered with gable roofs, while the side altars and gallery have single-pitched roofs. A feature of the church is that the side walls of the cross are not parallel but significantly pushed outward. This creates a unified space where services can be held both in front of the main altar and in front of the side altars: the northern one dedicated to Nicholas and the southern one dedicated to Nikita. The entire interior of the church can be inscribed in a circle.
In the 19th century, probably in the first half, the altars were lowered and combined under a common five-pitched roof. Initially, the roofs of the altars, like the main log structure of the church, had a samtsovo-slegovaya design with a shingle roof. The central octagon, standing on a low quadrilateral, almost hidden under the roof, has remained in its original form, except for four large openings cut in the second half of the 19th century. The base of the crowned tent, hewn "in the cut," has been preserved to a height of four crowns.
With the appearance of windows, the middle part of the ceiling disappeared, opening up the space of the octagon. The altars and the western part of the prayer space did not have ceilings. The restoration of the church began in 1968 and was mostly completed in 1971.
The restoration aimed to restore the architectural and artistic appearance of 1531, while preserving some elements from 1699 and details from the first half of the 19th century. Late wooden cladding, domes with finials, upper floors, canvas on the walls, the log structure in the northern part of the gallery where a sacristy was arranged in the late 19th century, and metal roofs were removed.
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