Zosimosavvatievskaya church in the Sloboda
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Zosimosavvatievskaya church is located near the Nicholas Anthony's Monastery in the village of Sloboda Krasnokholmsky district of Tver region.

The first wooden church Zosima and Sabbatius being Solovetsky miracle workers, was built on the island from dismantled Church of the Ascension (also wood) on the holy gates of the monastery in 1690. In 1795, a wooden church was lost in the fire, and in its place, two years later, there was a church of stone with a chapel, consecrated in the name of the Holy Virgin. This building came up to the present time.

It is a small building, an architectural composition - "octagon on the quadrangle", topped by a roof in the form of the dome, which is a small cupola. On the eastern side of the church was attached to the altar apse and the west - a small refectory room and three-tiered bell tower with a cupola. The church has two chapels: the summer - in honor of the Holy Virgin and winter - in the name of the holy fathers Zosima and Sabbatius.

The parish was part of a series of villages that included Sloboda Grigorovo, Palnikovo Boyarsky and others. The church was abolished in the 1930s. It returned to believers only in the 1990s.

Today in the church Zosima and Sabbatius held worship and started restoration work. The project entitled "Forgotten Temple Krasnokholmsky region" organized a variety of activities.

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