Church of the Sign on Mzhar

The Sign Church on Mzhar or the Znamenskaya Church is an Orthodox church in Suzdal , located at the entrance to the city at the former Vladimir outpost on the banks of the Mzhara river, a tributary of Kamenka . The surviving summer temple was built in 1749 and forms an architectural ensemble, together with a separate bell tower and the winter church of the Robe Deposition (1777).

Church
Church of the Sign on Mzhar
Znamenskaya church
A country	Russia
City	Suzdal
Denomination	Orthodoxy
Diocese	Vladimir and Suzdal diocese
Type of building	Church
Build Date	1749 year
Status	OKN No. 3310136002

At the beginning of the 13th century, the Vvedensky Convent and Pinaeva Village, the last time mentioned in 1685 ^{[1] [2],} were located on the site of the modern Znamensky Church. The Vvedensky monastery was burnt in 1237 by the army of Batu ^[3] , and the village at the end of the 17th century was included in the city of Suzdal under the name Pinaikh or the Pinaev side ^[2] .

According to the scribe book of Suzdal, in 1617 there were two wooden churches here - in the name of the Introduction and the Nativity of Christ. Then, at the end of the XVII - beginning of the XVIII centuries, by order of Metropolitan Hilarion , the wooden Znamenskaya Church was transported from Torgovaya Square, and in 1749 the current stone building was erected in its place.

This one-domed temple is a two-tier quadruple , to which on the east side there is a large apse . The windows are arranged in two rows and decorated with carved platbands with figured columns in the second tier. Instead of carved kokoshniks, the upper part of the walls was previously decorated with images on biblical themes. A massive porch with faceted pillars adjoins the quadrangle on the western side. A separate three-story bell tower was erected a little later.

In Soviet times, the church was closed. In 1959, the church was restored by A.D. Varganov . In 1991, transferred to the possession of the Vladimir-Suzdal diocese.