Description of the attraction
The village of Nyonoksa in the Primorsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region has been famous for its salt industries since 1397. It is located 100 kilometers from Arkhangelsk, 4 kilometers from the White Sea on the Summer Coast.
The first mention of the existence of a parish in Nyonoksa dates back to the 16th century. Parish churches have long been located in a high place in the center of the village. Some of them have been replaced by others many times over the past hundreds of years. An architectural ensemble of 3 monuments made of wood has survived to this day: the cold Trinity Church with 2 side-chapels (1727-1730), the warm St. Nicholas Church with a refectory (1762) and a bell tower (1834).
Trinity Church is the only wooden 5-hipped church in Russia. It was built in 1727. The plan of the Trinity Church is compact and similar to the plan of the Transfiguration Church on Kizhi Island. The compositional core of the building is an octagon, which is adjoined from 4 sides by cuttings directed to the cardinal points and covered with tents. The northern and southern side-chapels, as well as in the Kemsky Cathedral, represent the side-altars of the church. The eastern edge (equal in area to the side-altars) forms its altar, and the western one - the refectory. Once upon a time, the church was surrounded on three sides by covered galleries, into which, respectively, three porches led: the central (two-ascent) and two side ones leading to the side-altars.
The height of the main tent of the Trinity Church is over 20 meters. The central volume consists of 2 eights, which stand one on top of the other. The tent is not chopped, as in most northern hipped-roof buildings, but is formed by a complex of rafter "legs", "struts" and "ties". The suspended ceiling of the central volume is connected with the structure of the tent. In the 19th century, Trinity Church was sheathed with boards and wide windows were cut through in the central octagon, but the galleries were lost.
Nikolskaya Church (Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker) was built in 1762-1763. It was a warm wooden temple south of the Trinity Church. The octagon with a tent is completed by the quadrangle of the main volume, to which an altar covered with a barrel adjoins on the east side, and a refectory on the west.
In the 19th century, renovations were organized, during which the church was sheathed with planks, extensions to the altar and refectory were made. In the 1840s, the Pyatnitsky side-chapel was created in the refectory. Since 1994, restoration work has been carried out here (complete bulkhead). Now they have been completed, and the services have been resumed.
The bell tower was built in 1834. Its construction is based on an octagon-on-four-frame log house. It has been widespread in the North in bell structures since the 17th century. The completion of the log house and its picturesque decoration with external cladding are made in imitation of the forms of stylized stone architecture.
In 1989, the bell tower was in emergency condition. It was decided to organize the restoration of the building. All the original architectural and structural elements of the building, which have not lost their strength, have been preserved. The structure and shape of a circled dome and an octagon under the head, a drainage roof with a drain under the floor of a ringing tier, a porch, decorative elements of a cladding and a color scheme of painting were recreated. In 1993, the restoration work was completed. In 2008, restoration work was again organized (by the method of a complete bulkhead).
