The Pui parish is located on both sides of the Pui River, 25 versts from its confluence with the Vaga, 475 versts from Arkhangelsk, 75 versts south of Shenkursk, 16 versts from the Lower Pui parish, and 8 versts from the Timonev parish. It served 17 villages located 3 versts upstream and 9 versts downstream from the parish churches. As of January 1, 1894, the Pui parish had 1,062 men and 1,132 women.
The exact date of the establishment of the Pui parish and its founder are unknown. According to archival data, a church in honor of St. George the Great Martyr already existed here in 1624, and the priest was Athanasius Fedorov.
Before the creation of the Arkhangelsk diocese, the parish was under the administration of the Novgorod metropolitans and was called "Dolmatovskaya Gora of the Georgievsky Pogost."
There were two churches in the parish: one in honor of St. George the Great Martyr and the other in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. Both were wooden, five-domed, clad in planks, painted, and built on a stone foundation. The first had the shape of a ship, while the second was an elongated square.
During the Soviet era, one of the churches was dismantled, and a club was set up in the other, which later burned down. The restoration of the Georgievsky parish in the village of Dolmatovo began in 1998. The village administration, responding to the community's request, provided the building of the former village council for the church on a gratuitous lease. On April 22, 1999, a parish council was elected, and from that moment, active work began on the revival of the church in Dolmatovo.
Comments
No comments yet. Be the first.
To leave a comment, sign in with Google.