Saints Boris and Gleb Church in Suzdal, Eastern Orthodox church in Suzdal, Russia.
Saints Boris and Gleb Church is a red-brick building in the Moscow Baroque style, with an octagon set on a massive cube, a faceted apse and a low refectory. A four-sided bell tower with a spire adjoins the refectory. Carved window surrounds, pilasters and a portal decorate the facades, and 18th- and 19th-century paintings survive inside.
A 1578 royal charter mentions a Boris and Gleb monastery and the Borisova Storona settlement on this site; both vanished from the 1617 town inventory, likely destroyed during the Polish intervention of the Time of Troubles. A 1628–1629 cadastral book records two wooden churches here, and the present brick church was built around 1700–1701 under Metropolitan Hilarion of Suzdal, as a 1698 Trebnik inscription shows. Closed in 1923, it was restored in 1961 under A. D. Varganov and reopened in 2021.
The church is dedicated to Princes Boris and Gleb, the first saints canonized in Kievan Rus. Its second name, Church of the Icon of the Mother of God 'Life-Giving Spring', comes from the icon to which the rebuilt church was consecrated on 3 October 2021 by Metropolitan Tikhon of Vladimir and Suzdal. The church stands on Borisova Storona, the former Borisov settlement across the Kamenka.
The church stands on the right bank of the Kamenka River, on Borisova Storona Street beside the Museum of Wooden Architecture. The entrance is through the portal in the first tier of the bell tower. The building was restored in 2017–2021 and reconsecrated on 3 October 2021, so it functions as an active church rather than a museum hall.
The church kept 18th- and 19th-century wall paintings through its Soviet closure, when the Suzdal museum proposed demolishing it for building material, including a city bathhouse. It escaped that fate, stood abandoned for decades, and was restored in 1961 under A. D. Varganov. A 1701 donor inscription in a printed Trebnik names the church as newly built by Metropolitan Hilarion.
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