Spas-Zagorye

Russian Orthodox Church (operating) [10][11]

Temple in honor of the Transfiguration
(XX century, the beginning)

The story of the Transfiguration Church was traditionally conducted with 1614 and starts with the name of the outstanding figure of Russian history of the early seventeenth century Prince Boris Mikhailovich Lykov-Obolenskiy

A stone Church built in 1614 by Prince B. M. Lykov-Obolenskiy, who restored the St. Paphnutius Borovsk monastery after the destruction of 1610. His wife, Princess Anastasia, in schema anisii had the sister of Patriarch Filaret and the aunt of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov. In the construction of the temple was also attended by the princes Naryshkin, the estate which was adjacent to the village.

The Church building is two-storied. The upper floor – summer Church of the Transfiguration, on the North side built a chapel in honour of the Intercession of the Theotokos, and in the refectory the altar in honor of the exaltation of the cross. In the basement, winter the lower temple with one altar in honor of the Our Lady of Kazan.

Extant temple architecturally represents a striking example of the national style of Russian architecture of the late 17th century, characteristic features of which are the five domes, the completion of the arch building, the framing of the domes of the Church. The upper temple was built on the ground floor and has two tiers of Windows framed with frames consisting of two columns connected at the top brace. The steepled bell tower, and the verge of its third tier is oriented to the cardinal.[7][11][12]