smikh2009.02.16 [15:24]
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Cross Cathedral. Svyato-Yuryev monastery. Veliky Novgorod. Before Christmas.
The church in honor of vozdvizheniya Chestnago and Saving Cross (Cross Cathedral) is located on the Northeast corner of the monastery, and the northern and eastern sides of the line is given the monastic buildings. In 1760 there was built a stone church with a wooden osmerikom and remained not blessed to 1810g. When a fire destroyed all the wooden buildings. In place of this bezimennoy church, and on the same grounds, built in 1823 - year Vozdvizhensky temple diligence of the monastery, Archimandrite Photios Shrine, and in 1826 - Year consecrated. This stone church with spacious rooms with a dome at the bottom of the middle level, has the form of a square, with five chapters, which since the structure and so far have «gold» stars on a blue background of the dome. The size of the church in the length and width of about 20 - ty meters in height - about 30 - ty meters. Prior to the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks cathedral, like other churches, has a rich decoration with painted walls and the scene painted on them. You can mark a cross on the king's gate of boxwood, obdelanny nacre. This cross was granted Государем Emperor Alexander I, he was sent to Mount Athos. On the walls hung icons, remarkable for antiquity. In Soviet times, the temple was a club, then mail. S70 - x 80 - s of the museum was located here, as in podtserkovnom room - Picture Gallery. Since the early 90 - ies, with the transfer of the Diocese of the monastery, in the Cross Cathedral worship service was resumed and now he is the main monastery temple.
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