Fyodorovskaya Church, Eastern Orthodox church in Yaroslavl, Russia.
Fyodorovskaya Church is a brick building with five domes rising on elongated drums from a rectangular base. The structure stands on the Kotorosl River bank and displays the characteristic architectural style of the Yaroslavl school.
The church was built between 1682 and 1687 by local parishioners and was one of the first returned to Russian Orthodox use in 1987. This return marked an important moment in restoring religious sites in the region.
The church is dedicated to the Feodorovskaya icon, the prayer image of the Romanov tsars, and the parish chronicle tells of its copy painted by Guriy Nikitin for the healed townsman Ivan Pleshkov. Two streets of the Trans-Kotorosl side, Bolshaya Fyodorovskaya and Malaya Fyodorovskaya, carry the church's name. The compound also holds the warm St Nicholas of Penye church with its belfry and a brick baptistery consecrated at Christmas 1999.
The church stands in Tolchkovo on the right bank of the Kotorosl, within a fenced compound shared with the warm St Nicholas Penskaya church and its belfry, plus a brick baptistery of 1999. Several bishops are buried beside the church. A hypermarket built opposite now blocks the view of the compound from the Tolbukhin Bridge.
The 18th-century parish chronicle records that the sick man was the townsman Ivan Pleshkov, healed in 1669 after a dream in which two figures in bishop's vestments told him to commission a copy of the Kostroma icon. The icon painter Guriy Nikitin fasted and took communion before starting the copy, which was then carried to Yaroslavl by boat.
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