Description of the attraction
The Church of All Saints on Kulishki (as the swampy place was formerly called) was built in 1687. According to legend, on this place there was a wooden church founded by Prince Dmitry Donskoy in memory of the Russian soldiers who died in the battle on the Kulikovo field. Later, a stone temple was built here. At first it was a pillarless two-tiered church with one apse on the basement. A gallery surrounded it on three sides.
In the 17th century, the Nikolskaya Church with a side-altar and a four-tiered bell tower next to the porch were added to the temple. On the hipped roof, there is a head on a high drum, at the base of which there is a row of kokoshniks. The central windows of the quadrangle are decorated with lush platbands. Both parts of the altar have separate vaults, but outside they are covered by one common vault. By the beginning of the 18th century, there were two chapels in the church - St. Nicholas the Pleasant and the Prophet Naum.
During the war of 1812, the church was badly damaged by fire. But by 1829 it was restored and re-decorated. Initially, the walls were whitewashed, but with the advent of the brick bell tower, the walls of the temple began to be painted to match the color of the brick.
The temple has one rather low apse in the entire width of the four-sided wall. The original decor of the apse has been preserved. Niches alternate with pilasters, similar to those that adorn the facades of the main volume of the temple. The niches also contain the window openings of the altar part of the church. The bell tower, placed on a four and two eight, ends not with a tent, but with a dome on a high drum. Paintings of the 18th century have been preserved in the interior of the temple.
For several centuries of its existence, the church "went deep" into the ground, so its bell tower slightly tilted.
In Soviet times, the church was closed, but in the 90s of the 20th century it was returned to believers.
