In 1836, a "warm" stone church was built next to the "summer" temple. The main altar was consecrated in honor of the Holy Trinity, with two others dedicated to the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. The construction of the church was financed by donations from the wealthy landowner Oksenov in memory of his deceased young son, as well as funds from two merchants from Abbakumovo, parishioners of the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
The Trinity Church is a four-pillar single-domed building topped with a low decorative drum and designed in the classical style. In 1870, the imperial train traveling to Nizhny Novgorod derailed at a railway post near the New Village, not far from the village of Abbakumovo. Tsar Alexander II, his family, and ministers were unharmed. In gratitude for this, funds were allocated from the imperial treasury for the renovation of churches and the construction of a parish school near the church complex. The school operated until 1932 and burned down in the 1940s.
In 2013, the construction of a spiritual and educational center began on the parish grounds, where a Sunday school is now located. The interior of the church has remained almost in its original form: a multi-tiered iconostasis, copper chandeliers, massive candlesticks, banners, and well-preserved frescoes, with the floor decorated with ceramic tiles. These two churches are depicted in I.I. Levitan's painting "Vladimirka," and nearby, Levitan worked on the sketch "By the Omut" on the Lipenka River.
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