Church of the Transfiguration

The Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior is a former Russian Orthodox Church that stands on Ilyina Street in Veliky Novgorod just east of the Marketplace. The contemporary building was built in 1374 and frescoed through Theophanes the Greek in 1378. Substantial portions of those frescoes nevertheless remain, together with the Christ Pantocrator within the dome, some of saints inside the south front, and The Old Testament Trinity within the western sacristy, as well as others. The cutting-edge constructing is now a museum, a part of the Novgorod State Museum-Preserve. A church stood at the site for the reason that as a minimum the twelfth century.

The Icon of Our Lady of the Sign turned into at first housed there.According to a well-known legend, in 1169, Archbishop Ilya introduced the icon out of the church and across the Volkhov River to the Detinets throughout a siege of the metropolis by way of the Suzdalians. The icon is stated to have miraculously saved the metropolis. Because of this, the icon and the broader episode came to symbolize the town and its independence, and had been depicted in several icons of the struggle, one in every of which is on show in the Novgorod Museum within the Detinets. The icon itself become later transferred to the Church of Our Lady of the Sign, which become built in the latter 17th century next to the Church of the Transfiguration particularly to house the icon.