Church of the Resurrection, Church of Nikola Posadsky (Kolomna)

18 Posadskaya Street, Kolomna.

The Church of Nikola Posadsky (the Resurrection Church) is one of the oldest churches in Kolomna.

In the days of the Golden Horde, a church dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wet was erected in Kolomna Posad. It was first mentioned in cadastres of 1577–1578. The stone St. Nicholas's Church was built in the early 18th century through donations of parishioners.

It is a typical Moscow Baroque merchant's church with a spacious utility basement, a high summer church dedicated to the Resurrection, and a side chapel of St. Nicholas. The building is abundantly decorated with brick carvings. The top is adorned with 105 kokoshniks and five clustered domes. The central dome is lantern, and the other four are blind.

In the second half of the 18th century, platbands and kokoshniks were cut off. They were reconstructed as late as the 1970s. Icons and wall paintings were lost in the 1930s. Only the first tier of a red, freestanding bell tower has survived.

During the 1970s restoration works, the 18th-century square altar was demolished, and three ancient apses, the basement foundations of which had survived, were reconstructed.

In the early 1990s, the city administration decided to hand the Church over to the Old Believers' Community. At the same time, tracery crosses, reconstructed in the 1970s, were replaced with other crosses of simpler shape.

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Church of the Resurrection, Church of Nikola Posadsky

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