Trinity Church in Bologoye, Church building in Bologoye, Russia
Trinity Church is a plastered brick church built in 1808 in the late Neoclassical style, with Baroque motifs on the bell tower. Its main volume is an octagon-on-square rotunda covered by a domed roof with a small decorative drum and cupola. A three-tiered square bell tower stands at the west end, and a baptistery was added on the south side during repairs.
The present brick church was built in 1808 on the site of a wooden Church of John the Baptist erected in 1755. It was closed in 1935 and reopened in 1945. From 1983 the rector for many years was mitred protopriest Vasily Sadzhenitsa; in 2017 the rector was priest Vasily Kukushkin, and by 2026 protopriest Sergiy Zhelyabovsky.
The church is the parish church of the Bologoye deanery of the Tver diocese. Its iconostasis was assembled from scattered fragments of several classical iconostases taken from different churches, and a baptistery was added to the south side during repair work. The cemetery inside the metal fence with stone pillars holds the grave of a son of Prince P. A. Putyatin.
The church is located in Bologoye and can be reached via regional transportation links connecting to larger towns in the oblast. Visitors should be aware that opening hours and accessibility may vary depending on religious services and seasonal conditions.
The churchyard holds the grave of Prince P. A. Putyatin's son, buried inside the fence, along with naval captain Ioann Melnitsky (d. 1831) and priest Pyotr Skorodumov, personal confessor to Prince Putyatin. The iconostasis was assembled from fragments of several classical iconostases taken from different churches.
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