Description of the attraction
The Church of St. George the Victorious in Endova, located at the very beginning of Sadovnicheskaya Street, was built in 1653. A wooden church stood on this site in the 16th century, but it burned down. At the time of Ivan the Terrible, a "tsar's tavern" was opened here for the guardsmen, who were served free of charge at the expense of the treasury, therefore this area was called "Endova", which means "a large mug of beer".
The main altar of the new stone church was consecrated in the name of the Nativity of the Virgin, but the church was named after the young chapel of St. George. At the end of the 16th century, an extensive meal was added to the church. In 1806, a free-standing bell tower was erected.
The small quadrangle of the temple has five chapters on the drums, of which the central one is illuminated. The closed vault with a hill of keeled kokoshniks and columns at the corners of the church with vertical flutes make its silhouette slender and energetic. The temple is decorated with a rich cornice on the top of the walls and various platbands with multi-blade or crown-shaped tops. Balusters and white stone rosettes complement the decoration of the church. White decor on a red background of the walls makes the temple very elegant. The decor of the church is an excellent example of the 17th century Russian pattern.
In 1701 and 1730, the temple suffered from fires, and in 1783 the bell tower was badly damaged from a severe flood, but was restored in 1806. A two-storey annex with arches at the bell tower appeared in 1908.
The temple was badly damaged in 1930 when trying to adapt it for housing. Later, restorers restored window openings and frames, portals and a blown-up apse. The church has been operating since 1993.
