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This page includes links to photographs and descriptions of the ensemble of the Nativity, and the Epiphany Churches

 
  

 

If we go along the street of Uritski to right coast of the river Kamenka, and crossing through the bridge, we would see the ensemble of the Nativity and Epiphany Churches.
They form a typical Suzdal pair consisting of the summer Church of the Epiphany (built in 1781), and the small heated winter Church of the Nativity (built in 1739), attractively situated in the water-meadows by the Kamenka.
The earlier Church of the Nativity with its tiny dome and plain walls is a very cosy little building. Its west side is adjoined by a bell-tower with a slender, slightly concave tent-shaped spire reminiscent of the former bell-tower belonging to the Church of the Entry into Jerusalem.
The larger Church of the Epiphany is similar to the Church of the Sign, but its adornments are more novel: the kokoshnik band has been replaced by a simple cornice, the corners of the square body of the Church and the vestibule are ornamented with two rows of rusticated masonry (stone laying), and the usual covering has been replaced by two intersecting double-sloped roofs curving upwards at the base with an octagonal two-tiered dome.

 
  
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