Church of Boris and Gleb in Carpenters - a church in Veliky Novgorod . It is located in the northwestern corner of the Plotnitsky end of the Trade side (on the right bank of the Volkhov River ). The church of Boris and Gleb was built in 1536 on the site of an older building, which had been dismantled before.
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| Church of Boris and Gleb in Carpenters | |
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 Church of Boris and Gleb in Carpenters | |
| A country |  Russia |
| City | Velikiy Novgorod |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Diocese | Novgorod and Starorusskaya |
| Type of building | Church |
| First mention | 1536 year |
| Established | |
| condition | active temple |
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 World Heritage Site | |||
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| Link | No. 604 on the World Heritage List | ||
| Criteria | ii, iv, vi | ||
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| Inclusion | 1992 ( 16th session ) | ||
History
The church was built by residents of Zapolskaya and Konyukhovaya streets with the participation of Novgorod and Moscow guests . The chronicler emphasizes that the construction was completed in five months. The church was built piece by piece, twenty Novgorod "great masters" who received 53 rubles for the work.
The church of Boris and Gleb is close in its plan to the Novgorod monuments of the XIV century . Obviously, the ancient temple, on the site of which the new church was being built, was not completely destroyed. The foundations predetermined the archaism of the plan for the new construction. But this also limits the role of the ancient tradition in the composition of the architectural appearance of the church of Boris and Gleb, which is entirely associated with new trends characteristic of Novgorod architecture of the 16th century . This is evidenced by the pentacle of the church, unusual in Novgorod architecture of the 12th - 15th centuries, and the completion of facade articulations with decorative keeled arches, combined with the tongue coating of each articulation, as well as the repeated belt of pentagonal flat two-pointed niches on the drums and apse of the church. Like other Novgorod buildings of the 16th century, the church of Boris and Gleb is made of brick.
The church was closed in April 1937 [1] . During the Great Patriotic War, the building received relatively minor damage. By 1955, according to the project of the architect Z. I. Vasilyeva, it was restored. At this time, the brick part of the church bell tower (two tiers without a tent) was still in good condition. In the 1960s, active development began by the Khrushchevs of the Volkhov shore from the church of Boris and Gleb to the Alexander Nevsky Bridge . The well-marked church bell tower was considered to not fit into the appearance of the new embankment and was dismantled [2] .
In the future, the church began to be used as a warehouse. In the 1980s - early 1990s, the architect V. A. Popov re-examined the monument, and then another restoration. Restoration work on the church of Boris and Gleb ended in 1991. Since 1992, the church has been operating - transferred to the Novgorod diocese . Nearby, a few meters south of the church, stands a monument to Prince Alexander Nevsky by sculptor Yuri Chernov ( 1985 ), 160 meters to the north is the Church of St. John the Evangelist on Vitka .
Notes
- ↑ Alexy (Simansky), Metropolitan of Leningrad. Alphabetical list of clergy of the Leningrad Region on May 1, 1937. Publication A.A. Bovkalo and A.K. Galkina. St. Petersburg: Prince Vladimir Cathedral, 2014.S. 15, 95
- ↑ Trifonova A.N. History of Veliky Novgorod in the XX century. - M .: Northern Pilgrim. - S. 356. - 390 p. - ISBN 978-5-94431-299-0 .