South of the River Kotorosyl

Church Ensemble at Tolchkov

Our Lady of St Theodore Cathedral (September 2009)

Also located in the former Tolkovskaya Sloboda is a church ensemble comprising the Our Lady of St Theodore Cathedral and the St Nicholas Pensky's Church. The cathedral was built between 1682 and 1687 and is famous for its massive green domes. From 1987 to 2010 the cathedral served as the eparchial cathedral of the Yaroslavl and Rostov Eparchy. Behind the cathedral is the St Nicholas's Church which is often called St Nicholas Pensky's Church to differentiate it from the other churches dedicated to St Nicholas in the city. It gets this name from the Russian word 'pen' which means tree stump as a forest was cleared to build the church. It was built between 1689 and 1690 to serve as the ensemble's winter church. In form it is a small church with a single dome, attached via a closed vestibule to a bell tower.

Location 72 Ulitsa Bolshaya Fedorovskaya