The history of Christianity in the Komi region spans over six centuries. In the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the Vychemians, including the Turya people, embraced the Christian faith. In the census lists of 1585-1586, Turya was mentioned as a settlement. Before the census, a wooden church already existed in the village, which later burned down. It is unknown whether it was the first in Turya.
According to the Watch Book, a church reappeared in the village in 1608. It had five cells where a priest lived and the poor resided, who were fed by the church. The church stored remnants of unusable weapons: four arquebuses, five rifles, and gunpowder was absent. This state of the weapons was explained by the fact that Turya had lost its status as a border point.
In 1851, the construction of the stone Resurrection Church began. The residents of Turya and the villages of Lug and Koni built it by hand over 16 years, using bricks from the village of Keros. On a high bank, where the Vyma and Pozheg rivers converged, a white church grew. Later, the rivers changed their course, leaving a vast floodplain.
In 1935, priest Ilya Nikolaevich Popov was repressed, the church was closed, the bells were removed and taken away, except for one. Decorations, icons, and books were scattered. During and after the Great Patriotic War, the church was used as a club, and the Paschal church premises served as a canteen for the village cooperative. After the construction of the House of Culture, the church became a warehouse for the Turya village cooperative. In the autumn of 1993, the last bell was stolen, depriving the church of its voice.
Today, the church building is semi-ruined, and its property is almost lost. Recently, a large icon of Savaof was found, which a local resident had long used as a door to her basement. It now decorates the village museum. The icon is slightly damaged, but the colors have been preserved. In July of last year, a guest from Arkhangelsk, teacher E. V. Shirshov, visited the Turya museum and donated two pillars from the former church's lectern. He expressed hope that the Turya shrine would be restored, and the pillars would take a worthy place in it.
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