The church is located among the old trees of the cemetery to the southeast of the village. The area is surrounded by a wooden fence with brick pillars and gates. Built in 1821, it was significantly rebuilt in 1832. The brick walls are painted in two colors. The bell tower is lost, and some windows are bricked up. The building is designed in the style of late classicism with somewhat simplified decorative elements that retain the influence of earlier styles.
The main composition includes a two-light square with a semi-circular lowered apse, large porticos on the first tier, and a five-domed completion on a faceted dome. To the west, continuing the line of the facade, there is a lowered refectory with two small domes over a three-pitched roof. The monumentality of the porticos is emphasized by the treatment of their supports: the two middle columns and the corner pillars. The decor of the facades of the lower tier of the square, the refectory, and the apse includes pilasters at the corners, an incomplete entablature, and semi-circular niches above the openings. In the upper tier, the windows have high arched lintels, and the facades are decorated with pilasters located in the intercolumniations and set back at the corners. This baroque technique is enhanced by paired pilasters on four-sided bases of the domes. The square and the refectory are covered with vaulted ceilings, and the apse opens into the main volume with a wide arch and conch. The vault of the refectory is pierced by arches above the entrances and windows, in the openings of which cubic grilles have been preserved.
Currently, the Transfiguration Church is being restored. The Transfiguration Church is part of the complex of buildings of the Holy Assumption Women's Monastery.
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