The Holy Trinity Church in the village of Pozhva, Yusvinsky District, was consecrated on September 24, 1865. The stone church, the construction of which began in 1847 with funds from factory owner A.V. Vsevolozhsky, replaced a wooden one built in 1785. The church and the factory owner's house, located nearby, were connected by underground passages with secret exits to the surface. The church was closed in the early 1930s but reopened in 1938 and is still in operation today.
This church is one of the few surviving examples of cult architecture from the mid-19th century in the style of mature classicism. It is a one-story building with a basement, a two-light, four-column structure with a cruciform plan and a three-tiered bell tower. The facades are executed in a classical style: the southern and northern facades are adorned with deep four-column porticos of the Doric order. The eastern facade has a rectangular apse with two pilasters, while the western facade of the narthex is decorated with four pilasters. The tympanums of the pediments depict the "all-seeing eye." Arched windows are framed with plastered architraves with sandriks on volute brackets, alternating in the form of shelves and pediments. The walls are plastered "under rust," and the base is separated from the wall by a profile. The church is topped with a wide lantern with ten arched windows, divided by smooth pilasters, and crowned with a dome featuring ribs and an ornate metal cross.
The bell tower is an octagon on a square base. The ringing tiers have four arched openings, flanked in the first tier by double pilasters of the Tuscan order, and in the second, by double half-columns of the Ionic order. The bell tower is covered with a dome, and a wooden staircase leads to the tiers. The wide porch is paved with cast-iron slabs and enclosed by a wrought-iron fence on brick pedestals.
Inside, four pillars support the lantern. The side chapels, apse, and western part of the church are covered with vaulted ceilings with arches. The narthex is "two-layered," with an internal volume on which the bell tower rests, and a central corridor separated from the outer circular passage with cylindrical vaults. The chapels have preserved wooden iconostases with columns and 19th-century icons. The main iconostasis is separated by a metal grille with solar symbols, and similar grilles enclose the inner edges of the pillars with paintings in plaster frames.
Wall paintings have survived in the dome and pendentives. A marble plaque with an inscription about the laying and completion of the church's construction is installed on the southwest pillar. A cornice with a frieze decorated with plaster cherubs and acanthus runs along the perimeter of the church's rooms. A tiled stove has been preserved against the western wall. In the basement, covered with vaulted ceilings, remnants of stoves for hot air heating have survived. The church is surrounded on the west and north by a metal fence on a brick base with gates and wickets.
The church is a monument of urban planning and architecture of regional significance, as confirmed by the decree of the head of the administration of the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug of the Perm Region dated April 16, 2001.
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