Description of the attraction
The Sorokosvyatskaya Church, or the Temple of the Forty Martyrs of Sevastia, is located at the mouth of the Trubezh River, on the shores of the picturesque Pleshcheyevo Lake, in Rybatskaya Sloboda. It was built with donations from Moscow merchants Shchelyagins in 1775, most likely on the site of a former wooden one, known from the 1600s. The temple was closed in the late 1930s. Used as workshops, kept in order. In 1996 it was returned to believers.
The place where the temple is located is very beautiful in itself. A tall church with elements of the Baroque style makes it original and unforgettable. Probably the best view of the temple opens from the opposite bank of Trubezh, from Pravaya Naberezhnaya Street.
The powerful quadrangle of the church is crowned with five domes. It is noteworthy that the small chapters are not located at the corners of the quadrangle, as usual, but on small pediments installed on all four sides. This arrangement was usually used in wooden architecture, not stone.
The composition of the church is traditional - three-part axial. The building is represented by a main volume lined up with one large apse, a refectory and a bell tower. The church has a warm chapel in the name of the Nativity of the Virgin.
The decorative design of the temple is distinguished by its originality and intricacy. All three chains of windows in the main quadrangle are decorated with their own platbands that are not similar to one another.
A high bell tower topped with a spire was added in the 19th century. Its design is clearly different from the main volume. It is expressed in the rusticated walls of the lower tier, semi-columns and high arched openings of the upper tiers.
On the right bank of the Trubezh River, opposite the Church of the Forty Martyrs of Sebastia, before the coming of Soviet power, there was the Vvedensky Church, which was, from the first, a kind of couple.
