Church of Elijah the Prophet and the Holy Virgin in the village Vereteya
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Church of Elijah the Prophet and the Holy Virgin in the village of Vereteya Yaroslavl region. These two churches are the ensemble of summer and winter churches. They were built with funds donated by parishioners.

Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin was the summer. It was built in 1792. In terms of size it has 46h18h12m. This is a massive two tiers of windows quadrangle with five heads, having "Newtonian" shape. But the scale of the heads of the church and their composition solution indicate a long times of the 17th century.

Church of the Virgin Mary - the three chapels: the right side chapel - in honor of St. John the Baptist; medium - in honor of the Protection of the Virgin; and the left side chapel - in honor of St. Nicholas. In the years 1792-1793 the church and bell tower were added to the refectory. The appearance of the church ends the holy gates, fences, turrets, brick shops.

At the end of 1930 Intercession church was closed, and it was used for the needs of the warehouse. In 1997 the church was returned to the believers, but the recovery has not yet begun it. Five-domed church of the Protection of the Mother of God has lost all of his interior decoration, have survived only a few fragments of murals. From church brick shops remained only ruins.

Winter church in honor of the prophet Elijah was built in 1809. In terms of size, it has a 22 5h37h6 m. It was rebuilt and consecrated in 1873. The church has four chapels: the right side chapel - in honor of the Epiphany; Average chapel - in honor of the Prophet Elijah; left chapel - in honor of Tsar grad Mother of God; meal - in honor of Saints Cosmas and Damian.

The main temple bell weighed 350 pounds. The church was established rare seven-tier gilded iconostasis, which is decorated with a large temple. Especially revered in the temple icon - the icon of the Mother of God Tsar grad.

In Soviet times, the church was closed, its building was a warehouse of building materials. In 1997, the church returned the Orthodox Church, he was assigned to the Trinity church. Upper Nikulskoe. Services in the village Vereteya held in fully renovated Elias church.

Despite the dilapidated state of the Pokrovsky temple complex of the two churches, which stand side by side, it looks harmonious and imposing. These churches rise on the left bank Severka, which imparts a special flavor of the settlement. On the right bank of the river to have survived a two-storey wooden house of a priest.

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