Church of St. Nicholas on the Marketplace
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Pskov temple of St. Nicholas or St. Nicholas phenomena from the bidding is the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity chapel. Located on the so-called New Trades that appears in Pskov in 1510, after joining the Moscow. It is believed that the church of St. Nicholas was founded in 1419, but the fate of the building is no information. According to historical records, the stone church building in its present form was built in 1676 by architect I. Baturlinym.

Simple architecture of the church was altered many times. Chapel and chancel were added later. The main church facades have a niche under the icon. Dimensions of the church with a belfry close to the square of the length - about 28 meters, width - 26 meters. The height to the top of the cornice is about 11 meters. On the west side on the facade of the church bell tower was built, which had five bells in 1693 and 1760. Bell 1760 weighed more than 400 kilograms.

Church of St. Nicholas phenomenon is 5 chapters, which is not typical for the Pskov architecture, rather - to Moscow. She studied Russian historian Ivan Zabelin, who came to the conclusion that this temple is the first example in the construction of the church, when the head is not located at the corners, and sent to the cardinal. On the drum main chapters were little windows, embedded, most likely after the 1917 revolution, when the church was used as a warehouse. Drums other chapters - dull, elongated, expanding to the eaves. First chapters were covered with shingles, and in the present - the metal. In addition, the church has a porch, porch and riznichnuyu tent.

Scientific YP Spegalsky noted that the interior of the church is rich: its doors, made of iron and stored until 1941 in the Pskov museum were decorated with copper plates engraved with pictures, which depicted the story of three Christian martyrs: Azariah, Ananias and Misael.

St. Nicholas Church has a rich history. May 11, 1676 in the city there was a terrible fire, injuring many churches. In one of them, the Church Paraskeva, housed the miraculous image of St. Nicholas. The church could not be saved, but the image of Nicholas rescued and transferred to a new stone temple of St. Nicholas, in which staged a chapel Paraskeva, later renamed the Trinity. The very same church became known as the Trinity, St. Nicholas.

In 1786-1842 years the temple attributed to the Intercession Church of trading. In 1843, Pskov Old Believers mentored (later priesthood) Michael church was renovated and consecrated. In 1890, the St. Nicholas Church was again subjected to reconstruction. Since September 1896, with the blessing of the Bishop of Pskov and Porkhov Antonina W. Vostokov priest and acolyte A. Florensky on Sundays after akathist (chanting in the temple) held moral and religious and antiraskolnicheskie reading. In February 1914, of Trinity Cathedral in St. Nicholas Church was moved icon of St. Hermogenes, consecrated in the capital on his tomb.

Since 1917 the church was closed. It is possible that in the years 1920-1930 there were carried out executions, the proof of this are found inside and outside the building with human remains prostrelyanny skulls. During the Second World War, the church also was not working. During the fighting here had a strong fire. In 1995, the church of St. Nicholas was transferred to Pskov Theological School. Since 2000, work has been started to restore the church and the creation of a new iconostasis.

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