Church of SS. Athanasius and Cyril (Yaroslavl)

17 Chelyuskintsev Square, Yaroslavl.

In the early 17th century, two suburban wooden churches stood on the future site of the Monastery in Sovetskaya Street (then Proboynaya Street), the Church of Resurrection and the Church of SS. Cyril and Athanasius. According to legend, the construction of the Monastery is connected with the deliverance of the city from the pestilence in 1612, when the militia led by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky stood here during the Time of Troubles. In a single day, the grateful residents of the city built out of logs a new church between the old ones, placing an icon of the Saviour there. Soon afterwards, the churches burned down. The Resurrection Church and the Saviour Church, both parish churches, were rebuilt, while on the site of the Church of SS. Cyril and Athanasius, the Monastery was founded, originally in wood.

In the late 17th century, stone churches appeared in it, and in the late 18th century cells and other structures. In the early 18th century, after a fire, the architectural ensemble was reconstructed in stone and extended with a fence with towers.

Having been rebuilt many times and having lost part of its buildings, the Monastery has reached our times in a much distorted form. But once it used to be an interesting architectural ensemble, which consisted of three churches (two five-domed churches and one single-domed church) and of two bell towers. Among the Monastery's buildings that have survived are the Church of SS. Cyril and Athanasius and the Church of the Saviour Not-Made-by-Hands (the Proboinskaya Church of the Saviour).

The Church of SS. Cyril and Athanasius (1664) is pillarless, covered with a barrel vault, single-domed; it has a blind drum and is surrounded on two sides by galleries and side-chapels. In 1776, the northern side-chapel and a gallery were built. In 1830–1832, the side-chapels were extended in height, the windows were enlarged and the tented-roof bell tower was replaced with a tiered one built in the Classical style (has not survived).

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