Resurrection Church in the village empty Resurrection
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Church of the Resurrection or the Temple of the Resurrection of the Empty is in a village called empty Sunday in the parish Skadinskoy Pytalovskogo County. The construction of the church took place in 1496. Originally the temple had vosmiskatnoe overlap, it was later replaced by a hipped. Previously, the existing form of coverage was restored in the course of the restoration work; Church walls were plastered. The church of the Resurrection is a cemetery. Construction of the temple is closely associated with the name of Theodoret.

According to ancient tradition, the church was once ravaged by Polish troops of King Stefan Batory. After the destruction of the temple was rebuilt on the feast of the Resurrection of the Lord, after whom it was consecrated. To have survived a legend that explains the name of the second temple. In ancient times, none man did not know about the existence of the temple, as the surrounding area was completely covered with impenetrable forests. It happened that got lost in the woods someone's horse, which was tied cans for incoming calls. Horses for a long time could not find, but in a while he heard the sound of lopotunov. Once people have gone to the sound, they immediately saw the lost horses that were unknown in the interior of the church. The temple was completely empty, and then came his second birth.

At the moment, the temple is located on the outskirts of the village, namely the churchyard, not far from a large pond. With regard to the compositional scheme, the temple represented odnoapsidny and pillarless, which bushel overridden by two-stage system of arches and vaults with a slight increase towards the light of the drum. Sami arches spanned from the northern to the southern part, and are connected at the top by means of stepped arochek that spanned from the east to the west side directly to the base of the drum, made in the form of a sailboat. Temple altar is made in terms of depth and height twice below the quadrangle. The interior design has a lot of resonators that are arranged in tambourines arches, as well as the altar and in the sails of a light drum.

Decorative facades done quite traditional: the three-part division of the blades are on the fence, and the fence is completed, each in the style of Pskov, namely extreme fence completed a twin arches, while the average - trilobate completion. The eastern side of the church facade is smooth. Southern, western and northern facades are divided blades and do not reach the ground, in the final straight of the portals. Grounds church facade is smooth. Light drum is completely made of stone up to the top "brovok" located above the receive window. The upper part is faced with a wooden carcass by Church Gvozdyovs fixation belt ceramic, which is equipped with rollers flanking it not only at the top but also at the bottom. Sami rollers, as well as letters of the inscription are completely covered with green paint, and the background is made of red and unglazed.

Not only the interior, but the exterior architectural monument has initially made limestone plaster. The Church of the Resurrection there is a wall painting. The church iconostasis has not survived to modern times. The construction of the church carried out with the help of local limestone slabs.

In the mid-18th century, when the church was found in the shady woods, it has been carried out some restructuring, which slightly changed the original appearance of the temple. First of all, he had broken new doorway on the south side of the temple. Instead of the lost set of device was placed in a light flat rolling drum.

Simple restoration works were carried out in the church, with the support of the Pskov SNRPM throughout 1963. During the works were restored ancient stone structures vosmiskatnogo coverage. There was also renewed truss system equipped with grooves on all the corners. Services provided does not touch the interior of an architectural monument, all preserved in its original form.

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