The temple was built between 1901 and 1911 according to the design of F.N. Malinovsky. It is believed that its prototype was the Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt. Architecturally, it is almost identical to the Church of the Mother of God of Sorrows in Sviyazhsk. The temple was consecrated in 1912 in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. It belongs to the symmetrically axial five-domed four-pillar, single-apsidal churches. The temple itself is a two-light square with a high central light drum topped with a spherical dome with a finial, and four corner blind drums with bulbous domes. The upper parts of the temple have not survived. The eastern facade features three semicircular apses under a conch. On the western side, there is a single-light refectory under a gable roof, almost equal in width to the temple and the lower tier of the bell tower, which closes the east-west axis. The three-nave structure of the temple is emphasized on the facades by rusticated pilasters. The arched windows of the second light are framed with a profiled shelf with a keystone finish. The door portals on the southern and northern facades also have keystone archivolts. On the facades of the refectory, there are six rectangular windows divided by two doors. The decoration of the lower tier of the bell tower, the upper parts of which are lost, includes semicircular and triangular arcatures, a "city" cornice, half-balusters, pilasters, and three-lobed keystone archivolts. This is a monument of cult architecture in the eclectic style of the Russian-Byzantine direction.
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