Nikola-Lenivets's Trinity Church, Cultural heritage site in Nikola-Lenivets, Russia
Nikola-Lenivets's Trinity Church is a stone Orthodox church built in 1802 in the classical style, with side chapels dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Great Martyr Nikita. It replaced an earlier wooden church on the same site and today serves as a bishop's metochion of the Kaluga Eparchy.
The stone church was built in 1802 by Nikita Alexeyevich Muromtsev, owner of the village of Plyuskovo, to replace an earlier wooden church. It was closed in 1931 and used by the local kolkhoz; in the 1960s the building housed a production unit of a dairy plant. By decree No. 144 of 5 June 1992, the Kaluga Region administration returned it to the Russian Orthodox Church.
The church is an archbishop's metochion of the Kaluga Eparchy. Its side chapels are dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Great Martyr Nikita, the latter recalling Nikita Alexeevich Muromtsev, the landowner who built the church in 1802. The village name Nikola-Lenivets also refers to St. Nicholas.
The church stands in the village of Nikola-Lenivets, Dzerzhinsky District, Kaluga Oblast, roughly 180 km southwest of Moscow. It operates as an archiepiscopal metochion of the Kaluga Eparchy, so opening depends on services; the exterior can be viewed at any time. The building sits on the Ugra river plain, where the Nikola-Lenivets art park spreads around the village.
The church was closed in 1931 and later served as a production building for a dairy plant in the 1960s. It was returned to the Kaluga diocese by regional administration decree No. 144 of 5 June 1992, after Bishop Clement appealed to the authorities.
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