Built in 1762–1765 using funds of the Vladimir merchant Semyon Lazarev on the site of an old, 17th-century, wooden church, this Church was dedicated to the memory of the Holy Martyr Nicetas, the pillar-saint of Pereyaslavl. The Church established a festival in his honour on 6 June.
In the 12th century, SS. Cosmas and Damian Monastery, mentioned in chronicles, was situated there.
The building belongs to the class of traditional refectory churches, and it has a three-part plan. However, its exterior shapes and internal structure reflect the 18th-century aesthetic tastes related to Baroque architecture; for this reason, St. Nicetas Church looks more like a work of civil engineering than a church. In the old, wooden town, the Church's tall building served well as a reference point; this is why the street leading to the Church from the Zolotiye Gate became known as Nikitskaya ("Nicetas's") Street.
On the exterior, the building's facades are divided by three tiers of large windows lined with sumptuous architraves. The building's corners are decorated with clustered pilasters featuring order capitals. The decoration of the Church's upper part uses such purely Baroque motifs as volutes, lucarnes, cartouches; its roof covering also uses various ornate shapes.
The Church's painting makes it one of the Russian provinces' most interesting monument of Baroque architecture.
The Church's two-storey side-chapels were added to its north and south sides in 1849, the project involving the merchant P. Kozlov. The Church used to have two altar tables: a lower one, in the name of SS. Cosmas and Damian, and an upper one, in honour of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist.
The Church's iconostasis is its jewel in the crown; made in the style of the times of Catherine the Great, it features carved holy door and has the same shape as the iconostasis of the Dormition Cathedral.
The Church was shut down in 1938.
Its building was occupied by Vladimir Experimental Scientific-Restoration Production Workshop (the department Vladimir-Restavratsiya), which had been founded as early as 1945.
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