Vvedensky and Pyatnitskaya Church
   Photo: Vvedenskaya and Pyatnitskaya Church

Over the fence Trinity-Sergius Lavra on the south side there are two dissimilar Church: Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin and the Church of the Martyr Paraskeva. Stone buildings belong to the same year - 1547 th. They call them "Podolny" for a particular location on a hillside at the walls of the monastery.

Vvedenskaya church is very similar to a slim monastery Dukhovskoy only vaulted, high-podkletny floor and without a belfry head. Window openings, doors, as well as plan and even decoration of the altar ledges - all borrowed from the Pskov masters, erecting a church Dukhovskoy seventy years earlier. The funds allocated for the construction of the temple lord Ivan Khabarov. The original look of the church was repeatedly modified. Of the four pillars in 1740, the year there are only two as a result of the restoration work for the new set, and chapters on faceted drum. Apse preserved terracotta frieze-like belt Dukhovskoy church. Keeled niche complete wall of the church.

Friday Church is not as high as Vvedenskaya and more elongated along the horizontal axis, which is typical for the churches of Sergiev Posad .  Critics call this building a comfortable and elegant .  Carved portal is decorated with a single entrance, located on the west side .  It leads to the temple through the refectory .  And right above the entrance stands the octagonal belfry with a large arched openings hearing, culminating in a small dome on faceted drum .  Ladder ringing takes place in the wall of the refectory, on which rests the octagon "kolokolnitsy" .  In addition to the wall of the bell-tower supported by two pylons .  The church itself - besstolpnaya a closed vault .  Its bulbous head is located on a cylindrical drum deaf .  The external decoration of the temple Paraskeva solemnly .  Quite a large window openings and quadrangular refectory decorated with lancet innovative features carved and twisted half-columns .  Due to the blades, the walls of the church are divided into three keeled fence with niches and curb at the end of .  Decorative belt running along the top of the walls, is different from the neighboring temple of greater complexity .  Friday Church came to us almost untouched .

Initially, the two churches were parish. During the Polish-Lithuanian siege of 1608-1610 years they were heavily devastated. After both of the temple was repaired, they served the convent, organized here in the first half of the XVII century. In 1641 the monastery inventory is 13 cells appear. The monastery ceased to exist by coming to decline to the 1680 th year. Podolny church again became parish. By the end of the XIX century Vvedenskii parish ceased to exist, becoming a farmstead Trinity-St. In Soviet times, the church again briefly opened its doors to worshipers of Sergiev Posad. Since 1928, life here has not been maintained. At first they were a warehouse, and then were transferred Zagorsky museum-reserve. Laura returned to the church in 1991.

On the other side of the road in front of the Moscow church of the monastery is Podolny Piatnitski well with a chapel. According to legend, he appeared on the bank of the river Konchury source of the prayer of St. Sergius of Radonezh. Pyatnitskaya octagonal chapel has a domed vault, on which there are two more tiers of smaller diameter. Each side of the octagon has a rectangular window openings with rich architraves. Unfortunately, the exact date of construction of the chapel is not known. Architects include the construction of the end of XVII - beginning of XVIII centuries.

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