The Kazan Church is located on the Trade Square of Suzdal, a few meters from the summer Resurrection Church, forming with it a single ensemble of "paired" temples.
Short story
In the scribal book of Suzdal from 1628, the Kazan temple is referred to as "a side-altar of the Most Pure Theotokos of Kazan with a meal, wooden dumplings in the name of Leonty Rostov the Wonderworker"... A fire in 1719 destroyed both wooden churches, and instead of them, the existing stone ones were erected: a "cold" church in honor of the Resurrection of Christ (1720) and a "warm" one in the name of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God (1739), intended for winter services.
They did not restore the Leontief throne, but the chapel of the Holy Archangel of God Michael was attached to the Resurrection Church. From the end of the 17th century to the 1920s, the Kazan-Suzdal Icon of the Mother of God was kept in the Resurrection parish church. This icon was painted by the Monk Joachim, a monk of the Nikolo-Shartom monastery, located near the city of Shuya (Ivanovo region). At the behest of the Most Holy Theotokos, who appeared to him in a dream, Joachim came out of the seclusion and settled in Suzdal not far from the Kazan Church in a small hut. On the Suzdal icon, Joachim depicted the image of the Mother of God in the likeness of the one revealed in Kazan. In the post-revolutionary years, after the closure of many Suzdal churches, the Kazan-Suzdal icon was lost, and its further fate remains unknown. Today the relics of St. Joachim the icon painter were buried under the western wall of the Kazan Church in Suzdal. Also there is an assumption that Ananiy Fyodorov, the priest of the Nativity monastery, is buried in the building of the Kazan church., who wrote in the 1770s "Historical Collection on the God-saved city of Suzdal".
View of the Resurrection Church (left) and Kazan Church (right)
Architecture of the Kazan Church
The Kazan Church is a typical type of the Suzdal three-part temple. The foundation of the church is a pillarless quadrangle, completed with a metal roof with a small dome. On the east side, a side-chapel with a semicircular apse and a bulbous cupola adjoins the main volume, and on the west - a vestibule. The side-altar is decorated with a portal, which consists of round columns supported by a massive triangular pediment. In the strict, laconic decor of the church, a metal ridge on the ridge of the roof, characteristic of folk art, stands out.
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