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Nativity of the Virgin Mary Church

The Nativity of the Virgin Mary church was originally built in the late 1530s as the cathedral of the Vozmischensky Monastery which was dissolved in 1764. In form it is a simple white-stone four-pillared cube and to this a vestibule and bell tower were added in 1850.

Location The Intercession Church was completed in 1695 on the orders of Tsaritsa Natalia Naryshkina (the wife of Tsar Alexis and mother of Peter the Great). It was originally part of the Varvarinsky Monastery which existed until its dissolution in 1764. The church was subsequently increased in size in 1806 and 1870 and a bell tower was built on in 1878. The church remained open during the Soviet period.