Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Chaldovar)

The church was built in 1889 at state expense and was consecrated by Bishop Neophyte in honor of the Protection of the Mother of God . The parish did not have a full-time priest and was fed by a priest from Merke , modern Kazakhstan . In 1891 , by decision of the Synod , a full-time priest was granted. The church was closed by the Soviet government in 1940 . In 1942, the building was devoted to the Veterinary Institute, then it consistently housed a warehouse, gym, cinema, club. By the end of the 40s, the bell tower was destroyed, the transverse nave , side extensions and porches were destroyed, the ceilings were partially destroyed, the windows were covered with clay to the middle.

In July 1990 , an Orthodox community was formed in Chaldovar and soon the church was transferred to the ROCOR believers. In February 1994 , 9 bronze bells cast in Chelyabinsk were consecrated and hoisted onto the bell tower, the largest of them weighing 660 kg.

Many parishioners disagreed with the affiliation of the church and the actions of the abbot. In 1998 , the ROCOR community was liquidated.

In 1998, in Bishop Vladimir, Archbishop of Central Asia and Bishkek. appointed a new abbot to the church, and in 1999 the church and the unfinished building on the church territory again became the property of the Russian Orthodox Church , most parishioners returned under the omophorion of the Moscow Patriarchate .

The building is built in the shape of a cross. The material is burnt brick. Until 2000 , no significant restoration work was carried out on the temple. The church territory was not fenced, and therefore cattle grazed around the temple. The church building was in disrepair, the floors and walls needed repairs and decoration, there was no iconostasis. From 2000-2004, restoration work was carried out in the church. The dome and bell tower were reconstructed, the interior was decorated.

The temple has a modest decor of columns in the form of elongated balusters, simple, unadorned windows with arched finishes, small onions above the octagonal tents of the bell tower and the main dome.