Church of the Ascension of the Lord in Kamenka description and photos - Russia - North-West: Pskov region (Topic)

Church of the Ascension in Kamenka description and photos - Russia - North-West: Pskov region. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Church of the Ascension of the Lord is located in the Loknyansky district of the Pskov region. The construction of the church took place in 1759 with the personal funds of a landowner named Adrian Alekseevich Abryutin. The newly built church was close to the Baroque style, but the three-tiered bell tower was decorated in the style of a fairly late classicism, because it was built much later than the church building itself.

In the Church of the Ascension of the Lord, there were three thrones, the first of which was consecrated in the name of the Ascension of the Lord, which is why it was the most important, the second throne was consecrated in the name of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva Friday, and the third throne - in honor of Saint Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is worth noting, that in the church at one time there was a fairly ancient icon called "The Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva", made in the ancient style of "strict Byzantine writing."

The temple bell tower was also built of bricks and was listed near the church building. There were six bells on it; the largest bell weighed 18 pounds and 36 pounds, and the second largest bell weighed 14 pounds and 37 pounds. The weight of the other four bells is unknown.

Not far from the temple there was a cemetery, where two slabs made of stone have survived to this day. An inscription was engraved on one of the slabs, which said that Guards Colonel Nikolai Alexandrovich Navrotsky, who was born on April 19, 1842 and died on June 12, 1913, was buried under the slab. Not so long ago it was established that this man was the builder of the parish school of the Church of the Ascension of the Lord. On the second slab there was an inscription that under it was the burial place of Ilya Nikolayevich Klakachev, a captain who was born on October 18, 1834 and died on November 9, 1889.

In the church parish there was a wooden chapel in one of the villages called Red Hill, namely the church cemetery. There were no services in the chapel - the only exception was Trinity Saturday.

There were no almshouses, hospitals or parish patronage at the Church of the Ascension of the Lord. In the middle of 1899, a parish school was opened, the building for which was built with the money of a local landowner, as well as retired colonel Nikolai Alexandrovich Navrotsky; a small part of the amount allocated for the construction was allocated from the treasury of the Holy Synod. It is known that in 1910, 12 girls and 45 boys were trained in the parish school.

According to local stories, the church was closed in the 1940s and is currently not operational.

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