Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary/ Uspenskaya Church, Kondopoga, Republic of Karelia, Russia

Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary/ Uspenskaya Church, Kondopoga, Republic of Karelia, Russia

Assumption Church is a monument of wooden architecture and Zaonezhskaya branch Kondopozhsky City Museum. During the holidays of the Orthodox Church services are held, mostly in the summer. Regular services are held in the Church of Candlemas, which was rebuilt by the local architect of the transformer station.

Near the Assumption Church there were two wooden buildings that disappeared in the Soviet era: the winter Church of the Nativity of the Virgin (1857) and the belfry (18th century).
In the years 1829-1831, next to the Church of the Assumption at the expense of the parishioners had built a wooden tower, and in 1857 – the winter Church of the Nativity of the Virgin. The bell tower was demolished in 1930, and the winter church in 1960.

Dormition Church of Kondopoga is a Russian Orthodox Church in the city of Kondopoga, Kondopozhsky District of the Republic of Karelia. The church is located in the historic part of the city, in the former village of Kondopoga, on the shores of Lake Onega Kondopozhskaya Bay on a promontory jutting into Chupa Bay.

Elevation Church is 42 meters. The height of the tent and log towers, two octagons and the quadrangle, and the quadrangular height and width are in the ratio of about 1:2.

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