The church complex, executed in the Russian style, is an expressive example of architecture. The first stone church, located in the village cemetery and belonging to the Resurrection Church, was built in 1866 with funds from peasant Alexei Grigoryevich Galochkin. However, due to the humidity of the site, the foundation settled unevenly, leading to the building's destruction. In 1892, provincial engineer Tiden conducted an inspection, after which it was decided to replace the church with a new one. Funds for construction were collected for several years, and in 1898 the project was approved by the spiritual consistory and the construction department of the provincial government. In 1902, under the guidance of Kostroma architect N.I. Gorlytsin, the Trinity Church was erected, and in 1903 finishing works began. In May 1904, after the installation of a three-tiered carved iconostasis, the church was consecrated. To the northwest of the church, a clergy house was built, and west of it, a charitable institution in memory of Andrei Pavlovich Smirnov, erected with funds from his widow. The complex was surrounded by a brick fence. During the Soviet era, the bell tower and fence were dismantled, the church's dome was lost, and the interior was divided into two floors with a wooden ceiling. In the charitable institution, the ceiling collapsed and part of the roof was lost, some openings were bricked up or altered, and the western facade was covered by an extension made of silicate bricks. The clergy house suffered from a fire: the roof and floor ceilings were lost, the cladding burned, and the logs of the log cabin on the northern and eastern facades were charred. The walls of the church and the charitable institution are made of brick with facing masonry, the first floor of the clergy house is also brick, while the second is made of logs.
The church is a good example of a small temple in the Russian style with expressive facade decor. The longitudinal-symmetrical composition includes a compact temple base with a high four-pitched roof. It is adjoined by lower and narrower volumes of the five-sided altar and a small refectory with truncated western corners, which are almost equal in size.
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