Saint Paraskevi Church, Wooden Orthodox church in Barabanovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Saint Paraskevi Church is a single-altar wooden Orthodox church built by 1857 in Barabanovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai. It is a recognized architectural monument and one of the notable works of Siberian wooden architecture. The church stands in the village, and its structure has suffered from decades of neglect, including a rotten floor.
The Paraskevievsky parish of Barabanovo was opened in 1854, and the single-altar Church of Saint Paraskeva was built by 1857. In 1916 the clergy consisted of a priest and a psalm-reader, with salaries of 400 and 150 rubles; service income reached 450 rubles a year. Services ceased in the late 1950s, after which the building was used as a grain store and then abandoned. Restoration efforts began with the first Barabanovo expedition of the Krasnoyarsk Summer School in 1986.
The church is dedicated to Saint Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, whose feast is celebrated on the Friday after Easter. Since 1986, the Krasnoyarsk Summer School has held annual volunteer expeditions to Barabanovo to halt the building's decay. Services are now held every Saturday.
The church stands in Barabanovo, with the parish villages of Karymskaya, Shiverskaya and Dodonova nearby; the hay meadow lay across the Yenisei, 8 versts away. Services stopped in the late 1950s, and the building was later used for grain storage before being abandoned. Restoration was planned for 2012–2015 under a regional heritage programme. Prayers and liturgies are held every Saturday.
In September 2011, during the IX Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Polish artist Matej Andraž Vogrinčič laid the church floor with eggshells as a symbolic installation. While preparing it he fell through the rotten floorboards and broke his leg, and the day after the opening the shells were trampled to powder.
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