Description of the attraction
The church, consecrated in honor of Demetrius Thessaloniki, was built between 1671 and 1673 with funds collected from local parishioners. According to legend, the temple originally appeared in this place in the 14th century, when Dmitry Donskoy ruled. When the time came to build a stone church, the materials left over from the construction of the defensive wall of the powerful Zemlyanoy rampart in Yaroslavl were used. There is another version, according to which the second name of the church is Shuiskaya, which came from the throne of the Shuya icon of the Mother of God.
The temple of Demetrius Thessaloniki has come down to our time greatly changed. Initially, the temple was five-domed and equipped with a petal covering. After a while, in 1700, a small porch was added to the building of the temple. In the 19th century, cardinal restructuring touched the upper part of the church premises - the domes located on the sides were dismantled, while the pozakomarny cover was also replaced with an ordinary four-slope cover. On the west side, approximately at this time, a new porch was built in the classic style - it is round and does not fit well with the general appearance of the ensemble.
The temple of Dmitry Solunsky is exhibited on a cobblestone foundation. Its compositional solution is very similar to the composition of the church of Nikola Nadein, which served as a prototype for a large number of Yaroslavl churches. In the external decoration, window frames, equipped with keeled ends and thin constrictions, stand out especially. On the side of the northwest corner, where the galleries converge, there is a beautiful hipped-roof bell tower, equipped with an octagonal tent and lucarnes, as well as a quadrangular base.
The most important advantage of this church is its interior decoration, because its paintings are amazingly beautiful. In 1686, artists from Yaroslavl painted the temple under the guidance of one of the most talented masters - Sevastyan Dmitriev. It is known that it was Sevastian Dmitriev in the past, namely 45 years ago from the beginning of work on the Church of Demetrius of Thessaloniki, who painted the church of St. Nicholas Nadein. In the 19th century, all the frescoes were renewed, due to which the original colors were completely lost, although the faces, silhouettes, dynamics and silhouettes are extraordinary. The largest number of art critics consider these frescoes to be among the most outstanding examples of the painting school of Yaroslavl.
In 1929, the Dmitrievsky temple was closed. In the middle of the 20th century, the temple was used as a restoration workshop. It was reopened only in 1991, although services began to be held only in 2004.
The Temple of Praise of the Most Holy Theotokos was built in 1748. Initially, it was warm and acted at the Demetrius Church. The first mention of the stone church of Praise dates back to 1677, when it appears in the records of Metropolitan Jonah. Today the church is a small "winter" temple, mostly squat. The building is rectangular in plan and is equipped with a powerful and wide apse.
In the middle of 1809, the temple was radically rebuilt, after which it acquired the currently existing features. The style can be defined as classic, because the church building is distinguished by a wide semicircular wooden dome with a single dome, and on the north and south sides of the vestibule there are porticoes, which are elegantly decorated with columns of the Tuscan order, as well as rather laconic pediments.
It is believed that in the 1920s, although some sources mention 1935, the Temple of Praise of the Most Holy Theotokos was closed, and all its premises were given for industrial needs. In 1992, the church was returned to Orthodox believers again, after which it was overhauled. Today the church is active and proper services are performed.
