Transfiguration Cathedral (Belozersk)

The Transfiguration Cathedral in Belozersk served as a city cathedral during the XIV - XX centuries. The time of construction of the modern building was the 1668-1670s (laid down in 1668, completed in the late 1670s), the western vestibule - the 19th century. This is a brick three-apse four-pillar temple with five onion domes. At the end of the XVIII-beginning of the XIX centuries. according to some researchers, the coating was redesigned into four-slope, and the window openings were expanded. According to others, the cover of the cathedral was initially four-pitched, as it is now.

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Transfiguration Cathedral
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Status	An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. Reg. No. 351410072620006 ( EGROKN ). (Wikigid database)

It is located inside the earthen rampart of the Belozersky Kremlin , built in the 15th century under the Grand Duke Ivan III , the architectural dominant of which the cathedral is.

The cathedral has preserved a multi-tier carved iconostasis of the late XVIII - early XIX centuries. Under the central dome, a chandelier hangs on a chain, which is not fully preserved. ^[one]

Divine services in the cathedral were held until August 1937: during the Great Terror of 1937-1938, all the priests of Belozersk, including the cathedral archpriest Sergiy Belitsky, were arrested and executed on October 9, 1937 in Leningrad ^[2] . After the closure of the cathedral, its interior was maintained in relative order. Currently owned by the city museum ^[3] . A part of the museum’s icon collection is exhibited here.