Description of the attraction
One of the oldest churches in the Volga region adorns the city of Kozmodemyansk. Built in 1733 on Pugachevskaya Gora, the church is nowadays considered the main historical attraction of a small town and one of the main Orthodox values of the Mari Republic.
The white-stone temple with architectural forms of the seventeenth century is considered the most beautiful in the city. The five-domed church with the main cube of the temple, decorated with a belt in the form of weights at the end and crowned with a decorative zakomar, is clearly visible from the Volga. Beautiful domes with iron patterns and openwork-shaped ascending crosses are impressive on close inspection. On the west side of the temple there is a refectory and a three-tiered bell tower, built in later times in the style of late classicism.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the church was three-altar, where the main altar was always in honor of the Holy Trinity, the right side-altar was consecrated in the name of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, and the left - in honor of the Hodegetria icon. With this icon, a procession of the cross is performed annually (July 4-18).
In 1938, the church was closed and used as living quarters, in the early 90s it was returned to the Orthodox Church, restored and consecrated anew. Nowadays, a spiritual school works in the church and educational activities are carried out. Before the beginning of the service, the melodic sound of a new two-hundred-kilogram bell is carried along the Volga, complementing the landscape of the ancient city.
