Church of the Life-Giving Trinity description and photo - Russia - Volga region: Kozmodemyansk (Topic)

Church of the Life-Giving Trinity description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Kozmodemyansk. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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One of the oldest churches in the Volga region adorns the city of Kozmodemyansk. Built in 1733 on Pugachevskaya Hill, the church is nowadays considered the main historical attraction of the small town and one of the main Orthodox values of the Mari Republic.

The white-stone temple with architectural forms of the seventeenth century is considered the most beautiful in the city. The five-domed church with the main cube of the temple, decorated with a belt in the form of weights at the end and crowned with a decorative zakomar, is clearly visible from the Volga. Beautiful domes with a pattern of iron and ascending crosses of openwork form are impressive on close inspection. On the west side of the temple there is a refectory and a three-tiered bell tower, built in later times in the late Classicism style.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the church was three-altar, where the main altar was always in honor of the Holy Trinity, the right side-altar was consecrated in the name of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, and the left - in honor of the icon "Odigitria". With this icon, a procession of the cross is performed annually (July 4-18).

In 1938 the church was closed and used as living quarters, in the early 90s it was returned to the Orthodox Church, restored and consecrated anew. Nowadays, a spiritual school operates in the church and educational activities are carried out. Before the start of the service, the melodic sound of a new two-hundred-kilogram bell is carried along the Volga, complementing the landscape of the ancient city.

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