The wooden church of the Holy Trinity was built by the community of Old Believers at the new Old Believer cemetery beyond the settlement, not far from the main Shuya road. The construction of the prayer house was ordered by Count Viktor Panin, the owner of the settlement. The funds for the construction were provided by the merchant Osip Osipovich Senkov from Vyazniki, and it was completed on May 14, 1852. Later, a cold stone church was erected, and the cemetery with two churches was enclosed by a brick fence with gates and a tower.
The church is located slightly north of the Nikolskaya church, almost in the center of the monastery grounds. The winter wooden church is built in the "oblo" technique and is clad in planks. It consists of three parts: a porch, the main cube, and a five-sided apse. Under the church is a high stone base. In the basement of the apse, there is a room with an entrance from the street through the eastern wall. To the south and north, covered porches were attached to the main volume, of which only the foundation remains now. On the main square volume, there was an octagonal drum with a dome. The church roof is made of iron and is four-pitched. The main entrance is located on the west side. The low narthex is illuminated by two windows from the south and north, while the main portal in the western wall of the main cube has an arched top. Inside, the church is column-free, covered with a flat ceiling with insulation, and in plan represents a perfect square. On the northern and southern facades, there are two-leaf wooden doors, with rectangular windows on either side. The window frames are simple, with arched tops. Above the doors and under each window on the facade, there are false windows for additional light. The apse is connected to the church by a wide opening and has a five-sided shape with three rectangular windows on the front faces. The interior walls of the church are plastered, with no paintings or furnishings.
This temple is a monument of wooden architecture from the mid-19th century, reflecting the desire for scale and spaciousness characteristic of that time.
As a result of renovations and losses, the octagonal drum with the dome on the southern facade has disappeared, and the western window was likely enlarged, while the porch was also dismantled.
Currently, the church is used as a utility room for the Nikolskaya church and is gradually falling into disrepair.
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