The single-altar church in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was built in 1909. Father Ioann Ilyich Sergiev (known as the righteous John of Kronstadt) donated 100 rubles for its construction. In 1934, the church was closed and repurposed as a grain storage facility.
In 1999, an Orthodox parish was re-registered in the village. The architecture of the church is executed in an eclectic style, combining elements of classicism and the 'Russian-Byzantine' direction. The first style includes semi-circular shapes of windows and doors with a keystone, whose proportions are altered by eclecticism. The second style features the side facades of the square base with round windows of the second light, kokoshniks, and Greek crosses in the decor. The church's decor is characterized by fragmentation due to numerous niches, cornices, and small decorative elements.
The building has a traditional longitudinal-axial composition formed by the cuboid volume of the five-domed church with a semi-circular apse, on which a small dome is located, a refectory, and a three-tiered bell tower. Additional expressiveness is given by the contrast between the large openings of the third tier of the bell tower and the paired small windows of the second tier.
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