The Church of Transfiguration
Vologda region, Great Ustyug, north of the Ascension Church
Description:
The complex of the Transfiguration Monastery in Veliky Ustyug consists of two temples. One of them is heated and used in winter, and the second is in summer. The monastery here was founded in 1422, when a wooden temple was built. Extant stone buildings belong to the end of the XVII - the first half of the XVIII century. The stone Savior-Transfiguration Church was built between 1689 – 1696 and its architecture is somewhat reminiscent of the Moscow Archangel Cathedral of the Michael-Arkhangelsk Monastery.
The walls are decorated with multicolored majolica, as well as picturesque tiled friezes. Tile frames the windows of the altar extension, encircle the gallery, they decorated inserts between the windows.
In the main volume of close attention deserves carved gilded iconostasis, striking in its pomp. It appeared in 1697, about a year after the completion of the temple. The customer of the iconostasis was Archbishop Alexander, who initiated the construction of the temple.