Church of the Trinity Life-Giving (Kursk)

The temple is located on the site of the previously existing Trinity Monastery for Men, founded under Boris Godunov and according to his letter ^[2] , dated 1597 ^[3] . The monastery was devastated and burned by Lithuanian troops in the era of troubled times (1612) ^{[3] [4]} . Subsequently, the monastery was renewed, then assigned to the Kursk Znamensky monastery , and later abolished ^[5] . The former monastery church standing on this site was wooden. The modern temple building was erected in 1742 ^[6] (in some sources there are other, earlier, dates of construction - 1733 or 1740) ^[3] , in 1782 it was rebuilt by parishioners ^[7] , in the XIX century it was expanded by two side extensions ^{[ 8]} : the northern aisle - in 1829 ^{[9] [10]} , and the southern - in 1842 ^{[9] [11]} . In winter, the lower church was used for worship, and the summer church, lighter and more spacious, was located on the second floor ^[12] .

In 1940, the temple was closed, at the beginning of World War II the head of the bell tower was removed, and an air defense observation post was equipped in its place. Divine services were resumed at the end of 1941 (during the occupation) and did not stop after the war until 1961, when the church was closed again ^[7] . During the restoration that began in 1971, the head of the bell tower was restored. In 1989, the planetarium was located in the church building ^[10] . The first floor of the temple was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992, and the second in 1995 (after transferring the planetarium to one of the premises of the Kursk garrison officers house ) ^[13] . In the early 1990s, an Icon-painting school was created at the church in the name of Rev. Andrei Rublev ^[14] . On August 6, 2012, on the day of the prayerful memory of the holy noble princes Boris and Gleb , Metropolitan Herman of Kursk and Rylsky performed the rite of consecration of the three thrones in the lower church of the Trinity Church and the Divine Liturgy in it ^[15] .

The temple was built in the tradition of Russian church architecture of the second half of the 17th century. This is a brick two-story single-domed temple, like an octagon on a four ^[9] . The lower church has the thrones of the Holy Trinity , St. Ambrose of Optina , the noble princes Boris and Gleb . In the upper temple are the thrones of the Holy Spirit and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker ^[7] . Wide and steep staircases located in the southern and northern extensions to the bell tower lead to the upper temple on the second floor. The temple is characterized by a modest decoration. The windows cut in the domed drum are framed by complex platbands ^{[8] [16]} .

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