The church, an example of archaic cult architecture, reflects a complex construction history and conservative features of provincial architecture from the 18th-19th centuries. It is located in a cemetery one and a half kilometers northwest of the village, known as the birthplace of Metropolitan Jonah, who in the 15th century contributed to the actual acquisition of independence for the Moscow metropolis from Constantinople. Since 1527, according to a charter from Grand Duke Vasily III, the village became the estate of the Moscow metropolitans, and later patriarchs. The wooden church dedicated to the Three Holy Hierarchs of Moscow, Alexius, Peter, and Jonah, is first mentioned in 1628, while the current church was built in 1775. In the 18th century, the building had an asymmetrical composition with a temple, an apse, a refectory with a southern Nikolsky chapel, and a bell tower, which was likely built later than the main structure. In the second half of the 19th century, the building underwent major reconstruction funded by parishioners, significantly altering its appearance. The apse of the temple and the refectory with the southern chapel were updated, and a new Annunciation chapel was added on the northern side, consecrated in 1872. At the same time, the lower tier of the bell tower was faced with new bricks. The cemetery was surrounded by a brick fence built in the late 19th century. There were a clergy house and a church school near the church.
Currently, the symmetry of the axial composition of the brick church, covered with lime plaster, is disrupted by the apses of the refectory chapels, which differ in size and shape. The main volume is a two-light five-domed square, the side facades of which are partially hidden by rounded apses of the refectory chapels. The eastern five-sided apse is slightly narrower than the temple, while the refectory, located along the transverse axis of the building, is significantly wider, with the northern chapel exceeding the southern in size. Above the altars of the chapels rise domes on two-tiered brick drums. The three-tiered bell tower, with a low lower tier and pillar-like squares above, corresponds to the Baroque era; however, its decor is minimalist, and the finish in the form of a faceted brick tent with openings, characteristic of the previous century, looks almost absurd.
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