Church of the Assumption in Slavkovich
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Church of the Assumption in Slavkovich was built in 1810 and erected numerous parishioners. The temple has a chapel, consecrated in the name of St. John the Baptist, and a year later, was built a chapel in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity. St. John the Baptist chapel over the years 1890-1893 has been extended to the funds and re-consecrated parishioners 7th November 1893.

The church and adjoining bell tower were built of stone. The building of the bell tower is separate from the buildings of the temple. The bell tower has been hit hard in 1834 by a fire, but was soon repaired through the efforts of parishioners. The bell tower had eight bells. The first bell was cast in the weight reached 101 pud and had an inscription as the third bell; the rest had no inscriptions.

The parish was listed twelve hours. When the church was built Assumption of stone Vladimir chapel, which was built in 1865 at the expense of the parishioners, and the rest of the chapel were built of wood. At a distance of half a mile from the church standing Pyatnitskaya Chapel, a well-equipped.

In the church of the Assumption of the throne were three: the first, or chief was consecrated in the name of Our Lady of the Assumption, the left - in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the right side chapel - in honor of the Holy Prophet Cathedral Baptist and John the Baptist. Not far from the church building was an ancient abandoned cemetery.

The bulk of the church is a quadrangular cubic shape having a head with a light, a drum made of wood with a small cupola and cross. Temple hipped roof made of iron. The eastern side of the temple is adjacent Increased pentagonal apse, on the north side - lower domed chapel, equipped with decorative octagonal drum. On the west side adjacent lowered arches and quadrangular chapel.

The decoration of facades performed very modestly on the top of the wall goes quite simple cornice .  On the north, south and west facades of the quadrangle in the center top of the window openings are semicircular .  The side faces of the quadrangular apsidnoy are window openings with webs made in the form of arches and the central part of the decoration is in the form of niches, equipped with the same arched bridge .  On the porch of the facade from the west there is a semi-circular pediment with a parapet and over the wooden doors attached semicircular niche that has a metal cap, which is supported by metal brackets .  The main entrance to the temple is decorated polupilyastrami who are arch with archivolt, and at its center is the keystone .  On the facade overlooking the northern side, there are four window openings with arched lintels, and two late enough in the eastern side of the buttress wall .  Overlapping quadrangular accomplished by closed vault .  In the vestibule of the chapel and the vaults are made torispherical having stripping on windows .  The temple is built of limestone slabs, then plastered and whitewashed . 

Hospices parish guardianship and hospitals in the parish did not exist. The parish school began its work in the spring of 3 March 1884 in separately built for the needs of the educational building. During the 1910 school had 45 students.

It is known that in 1917 served as archpriest of the Assumption Church Pechansky Gregory Platonovich and priests were John V. Lebedev and Dmitri Orlov. After a while a deacon of the church became Emelyan M. Vasiliev - a native of the village machines at Ostrovsky District. In 1935 he was arrested and exiled with his family in one of the villages of the Perm region. Already in 1936 Emelyan Mikhailovich died. During 1942, the iconography workshop at the Pskov Orthodox mission in the church of the Assumption has been repainted church iconostasis. During the Great Patriotic War, the church was the priest Nikolai Uspensky.

Currently, the church - acting.

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