Kliment church, Veliky Novgorod, Orthodox church in Veliky Novgorod, Russia.

The Kliment Church is a single-domed, four-pillared, single-apse brick building with a three-lobed roofline. Its facades are divided into three parts by pilaster strips, and the apse cornice is decorated with a runner and dentil band. Inset crosses from the 14th and 15th centuries are set into the walls beside the west portal and at the top of the north facade. A two-pillared porch and a low two-tier bell tower adjoin the west side.

A stone church of Saint Clement was first founded on Ivorov Street in 1153 by Bishop Nifont, as recorded in the Third Novgorod Chronicle. It burned repeatedly, in 1326, 1385 and 1596, and collapsed in 1517. The Moscow merchant Vasily Tarakanov had it rebuilt in 1519–1520 entirely of brick, though in forms close to 14th–15th-century Novgorod churches.

The church is named for Saint Clement and stands on Ivorov Street in the Torgovaya (Trade) Side, the commercial quarter of Veliky Novgorod. The street name appears in the 1153 chronicle entry recording the original stone church. The present building was funded by Vasily Tarakanov, a Moscow merchant, and the church served as an active parish until 1937, when its 80-year-old rector, Archpriest Mikhail Tverdynsky, died.

The church stands on Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street on the Trade Side, set back from the road behind a two-pillar porch and a low two-tier bell tower. The main entrance was formerly on the south side. The bell tower was dismantled for brick in the 1950s, so the west facade now opens onto the porch.

The bell tower attached to the west side was pulled down in the 1950s for its bricks, but before that, Archimandrite Makary recorded that one bell bore an inscription showing it was cast in 1697. The church itself lost its dome and under-dome vault during the Second World War.