Church of SS. Peter and Paul (Suzdal)

Pokrovka Street, Suzdal.

The Church of SS. Peter and Paul (SS. Peter and Paul's Church) was built in 1694 near the southern wall of Pokrovsky Monastery.

SS. Peter and Paul's Church is one of the most monumental buildings of late Suzdal architecture. The Church was merged with the Pokrovsky Monastery ensemble, which ordered the construction. The Church was merged with the Pokrovsky Monastery ensemble, which ordered the construction. The wide and mighty volume of the Church covered with a cloister vault is topped with five domes. The facades crowned by a row of U-shape kokoshniks are divided with narrow pilaster-strips in accordance with old traditions. Between them, windows with smart linings are placed.

A one-storey porch with a rowlock-arched western portal was added to the Church's western side. A side chapel was added to the southern side. A defunct tented-roof bell tower of monumental and strict shapes was situated near the Church's north-western corner. Two sides of its rectangle were added to the porch; two outer walls from north and west were opened with arches supported by a round and short corner post. This motif was prompted by a design of similar arched entrances with a corner post in an ancient cathedral of Pokrovsky Monastery.

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