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The Church of the Holy Trinity (Issad Village, Volkhov District)


Subject / Religion. Church/Orthodox churches

The Church of the Holy Trinity (Issad Village, Volkhov District). The Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Zlatyn worked in the fishing village of Issad in the middle of the 16th с, the monastery was plundered by Swedish interventionists in the early 17th c. The wooden monastery church of the Holy Trinity (then the parish church), on the bank of the River Volkhov, was dismantled because of its dilapidated condition in 1858. The new stone church with the bell tower was built, on the place of the former church, to the design of the architect K.A. Ton in association with the architect K.I. Brandt and the architect A.V. Musselius in 1863-1866. In 1870 the church-parish was opened, in 1872 the guardianship was organized. The church did not work from 1935, it was closed on 9 May 1941 then the church building was adapted for the "culture institution". The church building was empty after WWII and it was ruined. From 2005 the religious services are performed in the curch crypt, the restoration work was begun.

Authors
Shkarovsky, Mikhail Vitalyevich
Bertash, Aleksandr Vitalyevich

Persons
Brandt, Karl Ivanovich
Musselius, Aleksandr Vasilyevich
Ton, Konstantin Andreyevich

Geography
Leningrad Oblast, the/Volkhov District/Issad Village
Topographical landmarks/Volkhov River, the

Bibliography
Берташ А.В., Векслер А.В. Новая Ладога. СПб., 2004., 136-137

Subject Index
The Trinity Monastery at Zlatyn


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