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Church of the Resurrection

Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast, Russia
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About Church of the Resurrection

Church of the Resurrection is a Russian Orthodox Church in Kostroma, Russia near the Volga River. The church turned into constructed within the center of the 17th century, no later than 1652. According to legend, the primary church "at the lowest of Debre" the street where the church is placed changed into staged by way of the Prince of Kostroma, Knyaz Vasily Yaroslavich. The architects who deliberate the church arrived from Yaroslavl and Veliky Ustyug. The church turned into painted rapidly after the construction in 1650–1652 years. Presumably, art work made with the aid of masters Arteli Vasili Zapokrovsky and frescos of the chape is thought to Gur Nikitin and his crew of artists.

In the 1740s the church windows were painted, gallery openings laid and the west porch linked by way of a protected walkway to the holy gates. Initially, when the church changed into built it had a bell tower. But in 1801, while the restructuring of the neighboring "warm" Znamensky temple, constituting a unmarried complex of the Resurrection Church, the bell tower turned into demolished and in its place constructed a new one, adjacent to the Church of the Sign. In Soviet instances, the church operated till 1930. Then it changed into closed, and its partitions made a granary, and within the basement there has been a military warehouse. In 1946 the church become re-opened. According to the memoirs of contemporaries, the church had no floors and icons and windows have been damaged.

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