Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is an Orthodox church in the city of Kondopoga, Republic of Karelia. It is located to the north of Petrozavodsk, at the end of Chupa Bay of Lake Onega. The church was built in 1774 and is considered as the pinnacle of hip wooden architecture.

The church is located on the highest point of a small rocky peninsula. But the uniqueness and charm of it is visible at once. When viewed from a distance, it may seem that the temple very low, but when approaching the church, then right proportions of the building are getting longer and the church tent faster and brighter on the horizon. The sleek silhouette of the Church is directed upward, which completes spread out in all directions space. This type of painting is striking completeness placed on components. It is in the altitude of the architectural structures and concluded based his idea, which was to memory and mourning for their dead countrymen participating in the Kizhi uprising 1769-1771 period. The church symbolizes the belief in the future victories. Church of the Assumption, after its construction belonged Prionezhskaya school hip architecture.

The Church has never been rebuilt, but was subject to restoration in 1927, in 1950 and in 1999. In the summer of 1960 the RSFSR Council of Ministers decided to put the church on the state protection.

It is known that near the church were two wooden buildings, but they disappeared during the Soviet era. These were the belfry and winter Church of Nativity. During the years 1829-1831 adjacent to the church was built on the money of parishioners wooden belfry. In 1857, the winter church. But in 1930, he built the bell tower was dismantled and removed in winter temple of the 1960s.

With regard to the architectural features of the Assumption Church, the main its volume consists of two eights with felled are put on bushel; there is a rectangular altar prirubok and two hanging rings. The height of the church up to the mark of 42 meters, which puts it in first place on the height of some of the surviving churches of that time.

Assumption Church carries a typical example of wooden churches built in Prionezhsky region. At the core of the building has wooden houses, huge heavy logs, but they come to us so far. Despite its height, the building seems slim, light and beautiful. Two highly elevated porch was attached symmetrically on the north and south. They are inside the temple. Small porch are bright and spacious dining hall, decorated with carved benches, as well as two supporting inspiring pillars which support the longitudinal beams podpotolochnye. The spacious dining hall fits a considerable number of parishioners. The church is decorated with a painted ceiling, the sky and the iconostasis. The iconostasis is made in the Baroque style. Heavenly ceiling Assumption Church is the only sample of the song "Divine Liturgy" in the church. The central medallion depicts the sky the image of Christ.

It is not possible to move the church in any other place or change his familiar environment, because then the visual outlines dissolved, changing the image of the church. The church has no adornments and everything that can distract attention from its complete image. In the past, when there was no city, travelers heading to the pier, saw the church from afar, which impresses with its majestic size.