Vladimir Church on Bogodomka

Today, there are so few three tent churches in Russia that each can be considered a unique architectural monument.

Vladimir Church on Bogodomka in the city of Yaroslavl is one of the preserved three tent temples.

The stone church, which has survived to this day, was erected in the 1670s on the site of a mass grave, called a virgin, for the nameless dead. Every year the clergy performed the funeral of the homeless and drowned, it was considered a God-pleasing thing, on the seventh day after Easter - hence the other name of the mass grave. There was a seven on the outskirts of Yaroslavl on the Uglich road. Under Catherine the Great, “poor houses” were forbidden, so no burials were made at the temple since the end of the XVIII century.

The dramatic events of July 1918 did not bypass the Vladimir Church. During the suppression of the White Guard rebellion, the rector of the temple Gennady Zdorovtsev was killed in a shootout, later he was listed as a saint. In the Soviet period, the temple was used as a warehouse.