Before the arrival of Soviet power, two churches operated in the village. To this day, the stone Old Believer Sign Church has survived, which is a monument of architecture from the early 20th century. The parish was abolished in 1937, but services resumed in 1991.
The church is located in an open area, away from the main buildings. It is made of brick and is not plastered. The church is designed in the Russian style, featuring a massive domed structure with a cross-shaped composition and a tiered bell tower. The main volume, with short side arms of the cross and a five-sided apse, is topped in the center by a large cylindrical light drum with a large onion-shaped dome and a head on a slender two-tiered neck. Above the corner sections of the central square, there are four small decorative domes on faceted drums. A high three-tiered bell tower adjoins the rectangular refectory from the west; above the center of its wide lower tier rise the massive square and octagonal bells. The facade decoration of the building is quite restrained and eclectic. It includes pilasters at the corners of the volumes, entablatures at the window sill level, a peculiar entablature at the top of the walls, and wedge-shaped and semi-circular archivolts with keystones at the arched openings. Inside, all parts of the building are connected by wide openings with a central under-dome area. Only the lower tier of the bell tower is separated, with service rooms on the sides, one of which contains a staircase to the bells. In the center of the church, the supporting arches with sails rest on powerful corner pylons, supporting the high drum with the dome. The ceilings of the other rooms are flat, made of concrete on metal beams. Fragments of paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries have survived in the dome, on the sails, and in the lower part of the walls.
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