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St. John Chrysostom Church, or the Church of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, is an Orthodox church in the historic center of Kostroma. It stands on Lavrovskaya Street, 5. In the Soviet years, it was not closed and for more than three decades it was the cathedral of the Kostroma diocese.

For the first time, information about the St. John Chrysostom Church is found in 1628. At the beginning of the 17th century in this area there was an ensemble of two churches built of wood: "winter" - in honor of the holy martyrs Florus and Laurus (which served as the name of Lavrovskaya street) and "summer" - in the name of John Chrysostom. The Kostroma scribal book says that “in Zlatoustenskaya street in Kuznetsy, the church is a dumpling of the holy Martyr Florus and Laurus, and the church place of John Chrysostom. " The latter, at the time of compiling the scribal book, probably died in a fire, leaving behind a so-called church site.

In the 17th century the wooden church of St. John Chrysostom was rebuilt, and in the 1750s a 5-headed stone church appeared in its place, consecration of which took place in 1751.

Stone John -Zlatoust and the wooden Floro-Lavrovskaya churches stood not far from each other for about 4 decades. St. John Chrysostom Church was "cold", therefore, in the winter, services were held in the wooden church of Flora and Lavra. It finally became dilapidated by the end of the 18th century. After that, 2 “warm” side-chapels were added to the Church of St. John 3latoust and a bell tower on the western side. These side-altars, completed each with a small chapter (the church has 7 chapters in total), were consecrated in 1791.

During the all-Russian expropriation of temple treasures in the spring of 1922, about 120 kilograms of silver items were withdrawn from the St. John Chrysostom Church: sacred vessels , frames for icons and icon lamps.

At the same time, the historic cathedrals of the former Kostroma Kremlin fell into the hands of the renovationists, and the church in honor of the holy prophet Elijah became the new cathedral. When in the fall of 1929 it was also abolished, the church of St. John Chrysostom became the cathedral.

In 1959, Bishop Sergius of Kostroma (Kostin) was buried in the church fence.

In 1964, the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ on Debra became the cathedral of Kostroma, and the St. John Chrysostom Church turned into a registered one (during the reign of NS Khrushchev, the state was preparing it for closure and demolition). It became an independent parish church only in 1966.

As far as the architecture of the temple is concerned, the first stone church was five-domed, pillarless and one-apse, built in the traditions of pre-Petrine architecture. But in its appearance it was already possible to trace the Baroque style, which took root in Russian architecture in the early 1700s. Attached at the end of the 18th century, new side-altars (each on an octagonal drum) and a three-tiered bell tower, completed with a high spire, were built in the style of early classicism.

Currently, St. John Chrysostom Church is active. The rector of the church is Archpriest Valery Bunteyev.

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