Description of the attraction
The Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is located on the territory of the Knyagin monastery in Vladimir. It has 2 chapels: from the north - in the name of St. John Chrysostom, from the south - in honor of the holy martyr Abraham.
The Kazan Church began to be named since 1789, when a side-altar in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was added to the temple installed on this place and named in honor of John Chrysostom. The temple with this name was located on the south side of the Assumption Cathedral. It was erected in 1747 at the expense of the widow of warrant officer F. A. Pashkova. In 1788 it was dismantled due to its dilapidated condition. A year later, the Zlatoust Church was rebuilt. The Zlatoust temple itself is mentioned in the monastic chronicles of 1656 and 1763 as a warm refectory church with the 1st altar (now the northern side-altar), was made of stone, covered with a plank, and the cupola was tiled.
In 1849, the Kazan Church was repaired, and a side-chapel was also built in the name of the holy Martyr Abraham. In 1865, an oven was installed here, which was improved in 1898 and strong ventilation was created.
After repeated repairs and alterations in the 19th century, the Kazan Church has survived to this day. This is how this architectural monument looks according to historical documents. However, studies that were carried out in 1962 showed that the bulk of the Kazan temple belongs to the beginning of the 16th century.
Kazan Church is located west of the Assumption Cathedral. It was built using the walls and foundations of an older church installed on that site. The building is two-storey, in plan it is square, with an identical division of the inner zone of both floors. All facades, apart from the eastern one, are not plastered, whitewashed directly over the brick. The eastern façade is plastered and more richly decorated.
The windows on the first floor are rectangular, on the northern facade they are smaller. The decor is missing. The windows on the second floor are large and robust. On the western and northern facades, the contour is surrounded by brickwork that does not protrude beyond the wall. On the windows of the eastern façade, along the arched end, there are profiled curbs.
The northern and western facades are little decorated - only pilasters and a profiled cornice. On the eastern façade, there are many drawn plaster vertical and horizontal profiles. The embossed decoration of the porch (platbands, fly, profiled cornice, horizontal rods) is made of bricks.
The original interior furnishings have not survived. The decorative design of the building is characterized by simplicity and elegance of forms. In the premises of the first floor, the floors are mostly flat, the vaults have not survived. In the interior of the second floor there is a spacious 4-stop hall. It is covered with a closed vault. Ornamental painting has been preserved on the vaults. The apse is covered by a conch. The walls are covered with oil paint. The floors in the temple are paved with stone tiles, on the ground floor there are planks. The entrance to the temple is from the south. The door is massive, double-sided, paneled, with a glazed transom, to which a stone porch is attached.
During the Soviet period, the interior of the Kazan Church was changed. The city archive was located here. After the revival of the Princess's monastery, the church was restored and re-consecrated in 2007.
