The single-altar cemetery church in the village of Vad, also known as the floor church, was built in 1867 and consecrated in honor of All Saints. It operated for 70 years but was closed in 1936, along with the ancient cemetery.
A note from the chairman of the district executive committee, Mironova, addressed to the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, is stored in the Arzamas archive. It states that the cemetery was located in the center of the village of Vad, which violated sanitary norms. Based on this, as well as in accordance with the legislation on the closure of cemeteries and the conclusions of sanitary supervision, the presidium of the Vad district executive committee decided on March 16, 1936, to close the cemetery and allocate a new site for burials. The archive also contains several letters from Orthodox believers complaining about the liquidation of the cemetery and the church.
An interesting excerpt from the minutes of the meeting of the commission on cult issues at the Presidium of the Gorky Regional Executive Committee dated July 19, 1936, discusses the liquidation of the cemetery chapel in the village of Vad. It was decided to liquidate the chapel and convert it into a radio station, assigning this task to the Vad district executive committee. However, in 1939, instead of a radio station, a food processing plant was placed in the church building, a branch of which later opened in the Zakharyevsky church. In 1967, the building of the Church of All Saints was converted into a sewing workshop. On the territory of the sewing enterprise OAO 'Raduga', remnants of the church walls can still be seen, which are now used as a warehouse.
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