Description of the attraction
The temple in honor of the Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God is located in the city of Gorokhovets. According to chronicle sources, the first mention of the temple dates back to 1678, when it was still made of wood. It is known that in 1689 a stone church was built on the site of the wooden one using the donated funds of the wealthy merchant Ershov Semyon Efimovich. The temple was erected cold and was consecrated in the same way in honor of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God. The church still exists.
The Temple of the Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God became the main building of the Sretensky Monastery. It is located in the central part of the zone of distribution of the monastery on the longitudinal axis with the temple of St. Sergius of Radonezh and a bell tower.
The temple has a three-part division - the apse, the refectory room and the main volume. In plan, it is rectangular and somewhat elongated along the main axis. The church consists of a cubic, two-height, high central part, which is covered with a hipped roof and ends with five domes.
On the western side, the main volume includes a one-storey refectory, covered with three slopes and with a porch. On the east side, on the same tier with the refectory, there are three semicircular apses. In the inner part, the main volume is covered with a closed vault and is equipped with a light drum. The corridor vault covers the refectory from the west side, and there are striking windows on the windows.
The external design of the temple is especially refined and elegant. The upper area of the walls of the main volume is equipped with decorative kokoshniks, which rest on a skillfully decorated belt that runs along the entire volume. Each corner of the volume is decorated with ordinary blades. Wall decoration is carried out using an openwork cornice. Bow and rectangular window openings are richly decorated with platbands of various shapes, which cut through the wall surfaces of the main volume, apses and refectory room. On the longitudinal church walls in the lower tier of window openings, there are not even similar platbands. You can enter the temple by going through perspective portals. The heads of the church are represented by bow-like scaly, and the drums of the heads are made deaf, while their surface is framed by columns, which are connected by flat arches.
The main volume is represented by a completed quadruple, which is crowned with a spacious five-domed. The lowest tier of the quadrangle has the usual height, and the second is somewhat elongated. The decoration of the drums, the shape and the three-part apse are the techniques that are used in most of the churches of Gorokhovets.
On the refectory and on the apse under the cornice there is a "w" -shaped ornament. The roof is iron and painted brown, and the domes are covered with beautiful multi-colored scales, which are finely scattered on the bean drums and larger ones on the middle one.
There are wrought iron bars on the window openings. On the side of the northern portal there is a doorway with wooden double doors, which is lined with iron sheets on the front side. The doors of the southern and northern portals are metal, double-sided, fixed with ribbons in a square pattern. On the windows there are platbands, decorated in the form of various carved figurines at the ends. The church plinth is marked with a stripe.
As for the interior decoration, the floors inside the church are made of wooden planks. Window openings are placed in separate niches with a slightly raised arch and small bevels. The common space is directed upward and is a single whole. The temple walls are painted with paint up to the uppermost row using oil with grisaille ornamental friezes. A little higher, the walls are whitewashed brick by brick in a greenish color. The wall closest to the iconostasis is whitewashed in white.
The altar room is small, but unified, somewhat directed upwards in the direction from north to south. The overlap was carried out with the help of a box vault, which is thrown in the direction from the eastern part to the western one. Oil paint is still preserved on the wall surface.
The Cathedral of the Presentation of Our Lady of Vladimir is a unique architectural monument of the 17th century, decorated with an unusual decor and having an interesting space-planning design.
