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St Nicholas Yamsky’s Church

St Nicholas Yamsky’s Church (November 2011)

St Nicholas Yamsky’s Church was built in 1788. In form it is a ‘ship-like’ church and with a main structure topped with five domes and an attached bell tower. Although it is very pretty, incorporating pink, green white and silver tones, its main feature is its scale, being much bigger than standard churches of this type. After the Revolution it was closed down and its treasures were looted. It was eventually used as a brewery until it was returned to the Orthodox Church in 1992, albeit in a very dilapidated condition. The church was subsequently restored and since 2009 it has been a podvorye (embassy church) of the Ioanno-Bogoslovsky Monastery in nearby Poschupovo.

Location 8 Ulitsa Tsiolkovskogo