Church of the Intercession of the Virgin in the village Jaborá
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At the entrance to a village called Jaborá on the plain, which is surrounded by forest, it is the Church of the Intercession of the Virgin. Around the church is the cemetery, surrounded by a stone wall. Near the village flows the river Ouse. Next to the church is the tomb of the founder of the family of the Church. He built a church in 1792 Fyodor Lavrov, the leader of the county Porkhov nobility. In October 1794 the church was consecrated.

The style of construction - early classicism. The lower part of the building - a rectangular, on the east-west line is extended in the upper part - cross-shaped, ending decorative drum having eight facets.

The internal volume is divided into separate rooms. The walls on the north and south side of the window there are two lights, placed in vertical niches with a bridge in the form of arches. In the wall on the west side - the arched doorway that leads to the porch and arched niche aperture - on the sides, north and south from the porch - two tents. Tents and porch covered with Korobov vault with strikings located above the doorways. In the wall of the bulk of the east side of the arched doorway is high, which leads to predaltarnoe room. The main part of the room is covered predaltarnogo Groin vault, resting on the girth arches, of which there are four. In the south wall - a pair of window openings, in the north - window and door.

The central parts of the north and south facades are decorated with horizontal Rust, the second tier of the light profiled traction entablature with a pediment crown these parts. Architraves processed window of the first tier, second tier of openings located in the center - semicircular, lateral openings - rectangular. All windows have profiled frames.

In the central apse is a decorative drum, topped by the head and a cross. Antibliment with an octagonal dome, drum and shaped chapter concludes with eight decorative false windows. Horizontal rusticated facades decorated the porch, the windows are decorated with profiled trim.

Facade of the first tier of the bell tower on the west side is on the sides of the paired pilasters, entablature and pediment, the next tier, which has four arched openings intended for ringing, covered with iron. The octagonal dome roof of the bell tower completed octagonal drum with a metal cross.

The church kept the interior, referring to the XIX century, but in the iconostasis, which in 1836 was renewed, survived several icons belonging to the eighteenth century. This is a very time-darkened icons celebratory cycle, "Baptism", "The Annunciation", "Assumption", "Candlemas", "Presentation in the Temple." Draws attention and professional performance gilded carved iconostasis, carried out in high relief, and carved angels twin heads over the southern and northern doors. The altar has a small carved statue Nile Stolbensky, whose height is only ten centimeters, and written in the eighteenth century. Icon of Our Lady of the Assumption.

Cast in 1747, on the orders of Ivan Chirkina, a merchant from St. Petersburg is a large bell in the bell tower. This bell is decorated with molded pattern of twining stems acanthus.

In 1836 the church was capitally renovated. Upgrading to a greater extent affected interior decoration. In the difficult war years, the church is an active and serves as protection for the local people. Service in it spent Father Michael. All the houses in the village were burned by the Germans, but the church remained intact.

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