Description of the attraction
The Church of the Resurrection on Debra is a posad church built in 1652 at the expense of the merchant K. G. Isakov, who traded paint with England, and the townspeople. The name "on Debra" probably means that there was a dense forest here in antiquity. This is the only surviving temple of all the posad churches of Kostroma. Until 1964 grain and vegetables were stored in it.
The church building is erected on a basement and surrounded on three sides by covered galleries. On three sides, the church is decorated with porches with tents and domes. At the entrance gates of the church, you can see English royal symbols - a lion, a unicorn, interspersed with Russian characters - the bird Sirin, etc.
The special pride of the temple is its northeastern, so-called three-saint chapel. Its vaults and walls depict scenes from the life of Vasily Velichko, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. It is believed that these frescoes were made by Guriy Nikitin and other artists. The carved iconostasis of the side-altar is beautiful, the finest ornament of which is painted and gilded.
