Trinity Cathedral of Nikolo-Trinity Monastery description and photos - Russia - Golden Ring: Gorokhovets (Topic)

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The Trinity Cathedral that exists today is one of the temples of the Nikolo-Trinity Monastery. The temple was originally erected on the site of the previously built wooden Trinity Church. In 1681, construction work began, which was carried out at the expense of one of the famous townspeople Semyon Ershov. The completion of construction work took place in 1689.

The church building is located on a high basement. In the lower part is the Nikolskaya Church (warm), and at the top there is a cold temple consecrated in honor of the Life-Giving Trinity. During 1790-1792, a large Chapel of the Transfiguration was added to the Trinity Cathedral. In 1894, a stone porch for the Trinity Cathedral was laid out.

The building of the cathedral is a three-apse, a two-story, rectangular and pillarless room, which has a five-domed end. Also, the temple is characterized by a three-part division - this is the premise of the temple, the apse and the porch.

The main volume of the second floor has an overlap in the form of a closed vault. The main volume in the plan is presented square and decorated with blades. The wall planes have slots intended for window openings, which are beautifully framed by casing equipped with toothed and keeled ends. Semicircular decorative kokoshniks, located in the upper part of the wall, somewhat rest on the cornice itself, presented in the form of a small row of denticles and a pair of half-rolls. The temple apses are dismembered in half-columns and have several windows decorated with decor.

On the west side of the vestibule there are three window openings, as well as two simple windows and a doorway located on the second floor. Wall panels in the corners are framed and end with a patterned cornice.

A small staircase, covered with a pitched roof, leads to the second floor of the temple from the north side. The wing pillars are decorated with multi-profile widths and have spherical roof overlaps.

The overlap of the main volume is decorated with a metal hipped roof. Four drums in the corners and one in the center are completely deaf. The decoration of the chapters is made in the form of decorative semi-columns, which are intercepted by beads, and above them there is a cornice of several projections. The temple building is completely made of bricks.

Trinity Cathedral is the largest among all the churches of the monastery. From the north, it is somewhat closed by the bell tower and the abbot's building, but from the other sides it can be clearly seen. The cathedral stands in the central part of the monastery territory.

The Trinity Cathedral is a five-domed building, equipped with a vestibule, a bell tower and a porch located on the south side, which constitutes a single compositional solution. The volumes of the southern and northern facades are made in the same plane, but have different heights, which makes the silhouette stepped. The outer facades are whitewashed brick by brick, and the roofs forged from iron are painted brown. The windows are filled with forged figured gratings.

From the south side, a staircase built of brick leads to the porch, which is decorated with a porch. Immediately under the porch space is a small square room equipped with a box vault. The two false floors are made very narrow. They are slightly elongated along the transverse axis of the entire room. There are bars on the window openings, but no frames. The openings themselves are made in the shape of an onion and from the inside are framed by niches of the same shape, but slightly larger.

The second floor of the Trinity Church is made as an integral two-story quadrangle, which ends in a closed vault. Window openings are also made in the form of an onion and have frames in the form of deep niches, only slightly larger in comparison with the openings themselves. The niche depth is oriented towards the interior of the room. At a short distance from each other there are arched altar entrances, which are made especially narrow.

The walls of the Trinity Church still retain the classical painting made in the distant past.

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