The parish church of the Assumption of the Mother of God on the Ilyinsk mountain
Russia, Nizhny Novgorod, Krutoy Lane, 3.
Description:
The Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God, like the Ascension and Sergius Church, is part of the Central Bishops’ Compound. This temple is an object of cultural heritage of all-Russian significance, since it is the only surviving structure of the period of stone architecture temple building of the XVII century with the characteristic completion of the main structure in the form of a “baptized barrel of four faces”.
Earlier, on the site of the Assumption Church there was a monastery, all the buildings of which were wooden. This monastery was mentioned in 1606 in the charter of Tsar Vasily Ivanovich Shuysky. Previously wooden, the Assumption Church in 1672 was built of stone by merchant Afanasy Firsovich Olisov.
In 2004, during the last restoration, the bell tower and refectory and bell tower were restored in the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God, the painting of the temple, including the altar and iconostasis, was restored.
