The Resurrection Church is a vivid example of a rural parish church, where elements of Baroque and Classicism are combined in its architecture. Built of brick, plastered and painted in two colors with white details, the church was erected in 1789 on the site of an old wooden church. In 1844, a refectory with warm chapels of Dmitry of Thessalonica and Flora and Lavra was added, and in 1849 a bell tower was added. In the mid-19th century, the church was surrounded by a brick fence with a metal grille and beautiful three-bay gates on the eastern side, as well as a gate on the southern side. Opposite the gates, a two-story brick house for the clergy was built, along with a separate wooden utility building. To the east of the church, there is a small pond. The fence and utility building have not survived to this day.
The church is located in the northwestern part of the village, on a high bank of the Vozhna River. Its architectural composition represents an "octagon on a square." Above the main volume rises an octagon with a domed roof and an elegant cupola on an octagonal drum. The altar, rectangular in plan with a smoothly rounded eastern wall, is equal in height to the main volume and has a roof with a goose profile and a miniature cupola. The walls of the refectory, which previously had the same height, were later raised. The tall bell tower consists of four decreasing square sections with an octagonal domed roof and a high spire.
The building stands on a low profiled pedestal. The corners of the main volume and the altar are decorated with paired pilasters supporting a wide three-part cornice that extends onto the facades of the refectory. The side entrances to the church are framed with rustication and fan-shaped joints, accented by metal canopies on ornate brackets. Rectangular windows of the main volume and altar are decorated with framed casings with ears, pendants, and small locks. The ribs of the octagon are highlighted by groups of three pilasters, the middle one of which wraps around the corner. The crowning cornice corresponds to the cornice of the main volume, and in the framing of the octagon's windows, there are no window niches, but high profiled sills appear. The windows of the refectory are also decorated with profiled sills on elongated flat brackets with pendants. All tiers of the bell tower have the same composition: arched openings flanked by paired columns, with three-quarter columns in the upper tier supporting an entablature with a triangular pediment.
Inside, the church is covered by an eight-section vaulted ceiling. The transition from the main volume to the octagon is achieved with flat trompes. Three arched passages lead to the altar, its barrel vault with small coffers above the windows is closed off to the east by a trough. The two-column refectory is covered by two transverse barrel vaults with supporting arches that bend at the corners and have coffers between the columns. The vault of the lower tier of the bell tower, whose pylons are sloped from the inside, is vaulted and has coffers above the arches. A staircase to the bell tower is embedded in the southeast pylon.
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