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The Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Tulukovshchina

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The church is located in the center of the village and is surrounded by a low stone fence. It was built in 1873 from brick and plastered, featuring massive walls and vaults. This is a unique monument of Russian-Byzantine style for the region, reproducing the type of cross-domed four-pillar and single-domed church of Ancient Rus with three apses. The main building is a powerful and massive two-light square with cut corners, topped with a large cylindrical light drum with a big dome. On the western side, a small rectangular narthex adjoins it, protruding like a risalit, while on the eastern side, there are slightly lowered apses with barely noticeable roundings. The walls are divided by wide, sometimes paired, pilasters and a profiled belt that separates the lower part of the facades in the form of a plinth. The pilasters divide the side facades into three bays, completed with decorative triangular pediments. The apses are adorned with a classical cornice featuring large rectangular teeth. The narthex is highlighted by a triangular pediment and a dome on a tall octagonal neck. The cylinder of the drum is decorated with arcature on small pilasters, into which arched windows are set. On three sides above the entrance openings with semi-circular tops and simple slopes, there are large niches-kiots; narrow arched windows are only framed with window sills on brackets. Inside, square columns with cut corners support high ribbed arches with sails that carry the drum with the dome. All side cells, including the narthex, are covered with vaulted ceilings. On the walls, pilasters correspond to the columns, on which the side arches rest, spanning from the columns. The walls are plastered and whitewashed. The iconostasis with icons and church utensils dates back to the turn of the 19th-20th centuries.

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Храм преподобного Сергия Радонежского в Тулуковщине

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