Fyodorovskaya Church
Coordinates: 57°36′35″N 39°51′56″E / 57.60967°N 39.865608°E
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The Fyodorovskaya Church (Фёдоровская церковь) is a penticupolar parish Russian Orthodox church built by ordinary parishioners on the right bank of the Kotorosl River in Yaroslavl between 1682 and 1687. It is dedicated to Theotokos Feodorovskaya, a miraculous icon from nearby Kostroma.
The building is notable as the first church in the region to be returned by the Soviets to the Russian Orthodox Church (in 1987). It served as the cathedral church of the ancient until the restored was consecrated in 2010. During this period the relics of St. Theodore the Black and were kept there.[1]
History[]
A from the 18th century survives. It indicates that it was the Mother of God who appeared to a paralyzed parishioner, Ivan, and commanded the building of a church in Her name. Ivan was instructed to sail down the Volga to Kostroma and ask , a famous icon painter, to make a replica of the miraculous icon of the Theotokos. This new image eventually helped cure Ivan, among many others.[1]
The parishioners decided to model the new church on that of the Ascension of Christ. Its exterior ornamentation is basic but proportions are graceful.[2] The elongated drums and domes are considerably higher than the cuboid structure of the church that supports them.[2] An enclosed gallery and a porch were added to the main cube in the first third of the 18th century.
The interior is of traditional design. It has four piers and is entirely covered in frescoes dating from 1716. The intricately carved icon screen was made in 1705. Some of the icons are noted for their complex calendar and cosmological codes.
The church compound is fenced and has a smaller church with a belfry on the north side. This single-dome Penskaya church is dedicated to St. Nicholas, a patron saint of merchants. There is also a baptistery of recent construction on the grounds.
The main door
Wall paintings
The icon screen (as photographed by Prokudin-Gorsky in the early 1900s)
Royal Gates
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- Russian Orthodox churches in Yaroslavl
- Russian Orthodox cathedrals
- Shrines to the Virgin Mary
- Religious buildings and structures completed in 1687
- Eastern Orthodox church buildings dedicated to Theotokos
- 1687 establishments in Russia