Description of the attraction
In the city of Suzdal, on the territory of the Trade Square, namely near the Monastery of the Robe, there are two famous churches: Lazarevskaya and Antipievskaya.
Lazarevskaya church or the temple of Lazarus the Righteous Resurrection is a five-domed temple, which is the earliest Orthodox building in the entire city settlement. The church was built in 1667, and after a while, the Antipievskaya winter church was erected next to it.
Lazarevsky temple was built on the site of a previously existing wooden church, built in the 15th century. The earliest mentions of the church date back to 1495, when it was written about it in a letter received from Ivan the Third by the Savior-Euthymius Monastery. In the inventory of the city of Suzdal there are records that in 1667 the wooden church was replaced by a stone one with the financial support of the townspeople.
The main volume is represented by a four-piece, skillfully decorated with platbands, a wide cornice equipped with a tiled belt and horseshoe-shaped kokoshniks. From the east, three apses are attached to the building. The decoration of the light drums is made in the form of an arcature-columnar belt, all corners of which are exposed on kokoshniks, presented in the form of horseshoes. An important difference between the Lazarevskaya church and other Suzdal temples is that the corner temple is not deaf, but has window openings, which indicates a rarely used building structure.
In the interior of the building there are two large pillars that serve as support for the corrugated vaults, which form light holes near the corners of the drum and at its central part.
It is important to note that it was the Lazarevsky temple that became the ancestor of the tradition of the so-called “sacred five-domed” - in this matter Patriarch Nikon played an important role, who considered that it was this completion of the temple that was proper for churches, and not a simple hipped roof.
In 1745, at the temple of Righteous Lazarus, a winter Antipievskaya church was built, with the appearance of which a pair tandem of churches was formed. It is located literally "a stone's throw" from the Lazarevsky temple. At first, the church was located on the site of the Sretensky wooden temple, but later the temple of the Hieromartyr Antipas, who lived in the time of Nero, was built here. Saint Antipos became famous for his incredible feat - he refused to worship pagan deities, for which reason he died a terrible martyr's death - he was thrown into a red-hot furnace at the temple of Artemis, in which sacrifices were most often made to idols. After that Antip was canonized.
The Antipievskaya Church, like most of the winter churches in the city of Suzdal, is not so large, laconic in design, and also modestly decorated. It is a rather low rectangle elongated to the eastern part, the overlap of which is made in the form of a gable roof; the wedding is done as a single dome, placed on a thin drum. From the east, the main volume includes an apse made in the form of a semicircle; on the western side there is a bell tower, which is one of the highest buildings in Suzdal. It is precisely because of the presence of such a majestic bell tower that the ensemble of the Lazarevskaya and Antipievskaya churches is one of the most recognizable in the entire city.
In the plan of the Antipievskaya belfry, an octagon is exposed on the quadrangle, which ends with a somewhat concave tent, equipped with several rows of rounded dormer window openings. The bell tower facades are decorated with rustic colored pillars and graceful beads.
At the beginning of 1959, large-scale restoration work was carried out concerning the entire ensemble as a whole. A. D. was appointed responsible for all activities. Varganov. According to the results of the restoration and repair work, the outer coloring of the bell tower was redone in accordance with the preferences of the townspeople of the 17th century.
