Chirikovo (Saratov region)

It is located on the right bank of the Hopper River, about 13 km north of the district center, the Turki village.

There are two streets in the village: Soviet and Central ^[2] .

In the village there is a stone church with a bell tower. The church was built in 1843 by the care of local landowner Prince Vasily Vasilyevich Engalychev and his wife Evdokia Fyodorovna. The main altar of the temple was consecrated in the name of the icon of the Kazan Mother of God, there was also a heated chapel of the Monk Martyr Evdokia. Next to the church, the Engalychev chapel-tomb, consecrated in the name of the martyr Basil of Kherson, was later erected. The tower of the Kazan Church consisted of a priest and a psalm-reader who lived in church and public houses, respectively. Under Soviet rule, the temple was closed and ruined, but it avoided much destruction. In the 1990s, an attempt was made to restore and restore the church, but because of the very small parish, a complete reconstruction was never carried out. In 2016, the reconstruction of the temple began, near the clergy are farming. At the moment, the place is in every way ennobled. In addition to the temple, there is a certain interest in the holy spring located below the hill, over which a chapel is installed and in 2017 the font was rebuilt.

Since 2014, the restoration of the church.