🏛 Dormition Church in Troitse-Lykovo

Одинцовская ул., 24

A small old church with a bell tower next to the Trinity Church, on the steep river bank.

The stone church was built in the 1840s–1850s on the initiative of Nikolay Buturlin; the estimate was signed by the architect Nikolay Kozlovsky.
The side chapels were consecrated in honor of the Buturlins' patron saints — Catherine and Nicholas.
A Dormition church had already appeared in the village in the 1690s: the old wooden Trinity church was moved and re-consecrated in honor of the Dormition.
In 1902 Semyon Kulagin rebuilt the church in the Russian style and added a tent-roofed bell tower.
A bell weighing about 600 poods (roughly 10 tons) from the Finlyandsky foundry was hoisted onto the bell tower.
In the 19th century the local historian Yartsev described the church as "with a blue dome strewn with stars".

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