Church of the Icon of the Mother of God ”The Sign” of the Holy Znamensky Monastery description and photos - Russia - Golden Ring: Gorokhovets (Topic)

Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Sign" of the Holy Sign Monastery description and photos - Russia - Golden Ring: Gorokhovets. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The blessed charter for the construction of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "The Sign" of the Holy Sign Monastery was issued by Patriarch Joasaph in the 1670s to the settlement man S. Ershov. The church was built of bricks, it is one-domed, pillarless, with a side-altar at the southern facade. Its main volume is cubic, covered with a closed vault and ends with a hipped roof with a cylindrical drum and a squat onion dome. The apse of the temple is three-part, its eastern wall consists of three semicircles. In height, it is up to the middle of the quadrangle of the main volume.

In general, the compositional solution of the church is asymmetric. The high hipped bell tower is shifted to the south from the central axis. The volumetric-spatial structure of the building is dominated by a large cubic volume. The design of the bell tower is a monolithic high octagon on a low rectangular first tier. In the upper part of the octagon cut through the arched spans of bells, it is completed by a tent with a bulbous cupola and rumors.

The southern side-altar also gives asymmetry to the building, which has its own main volume, covered by a corrugated vault, a refectory, an apse, a covered porch, in height, it is almost equal to the apse of the main volume.

The decor, consisting of arched decorative kokoshniks, which rests on a strip of valance, consisting, in turn, of crackers and horizontal rods, gives the temple building a splendor. Segment windows are framed by curly platbands. Along the perimeter of all volumes of the south aisle and apse there are horizontal yags of the under-cornice decor and curb strips. The main volume drum has a cylindrical shape and is decorated with an arcature-columnar belt. Keel-like false kokoshniks complete the arched openings of the bell tower ringing.

The Znamenskaya Church is the main building of the Znamensky Monastery. It is located in the center of the monastery grounds. The temple is almost square in plan. The apse consists of three semicircles. A porch adjoins the main volume at the back, a bell tower is located in its southwestern part, and in the northwestern part of the porch it smoothly passes into the chapel of John the Theologian, which ends in a semicircular apse from the east. The doorway of the porch is arched. The porch is white stone. There is an openwork metal canopy above the porch. An arched window opening is framed by a semi-roll and ends with a triangular kokoshnik. There are pilasters at the corners of the bell tower quadrangle. The cornice consists of two ledges. Each pillar of the belfry and the lintels between them are framed by a two-tiered draft, which consists of a half-roll and ledges. Each side of the tent is divided by a half-column. Each edge has two rows of dormer windows. The doors of the main volume are wooden double-leaf. The foundations of the church are lined with wild stone with lime mortar sprinkling. Facade decoration - whitewashed grout, inside - whitewashed plaster.

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