we are Talking about the Church, which is located at the intersection of Pozemskogo and Work near the Trinity bridge. The revival of this temple, spent more than 70 million rubles for the state program of the Russian Federation “Development of culture and tourism 2013-2020”, and it will end at the end of November 2022.
the First mention of the temple of Kosma and Damian with Primeste in the annals connected with fire: in 1458 burned the old wooden Church in 1462nd laid a new stone.
In ancient times this temple was one of the six Pskov “Kochanski” churches: it was the main Church in Kozmodemyansk the end – a sort of administrative center of the district.
In 1507, the chronicler reported that in the chapel of the Church of exploded gunpowder stored there. After another fire residents Koz the end had built near his temple separate belfry – “in chambers”, the basements and the first level of which is Pskov was used as a warehouse, the second floor was built another little Church with a belfry. In that time, the bell tower became the highest in Pskov.
In the eighteenth century, the belfry was replaced by an octagonal bell tower, which was destroyed in the battles for the liberation of Pskov from Nazi invaders.
the restoration Project of the temple of Kosma and Damian were developed in 2018, with the intention to make this the monument original appearance, explains acting Chairman of the Committee for the protection of cultural heritage of the Pskov region Vadim Nedic. According to him, preserved not so much evidence of what was the bell tower of the Church of Cosmas and Damian, but before we reached its base, and equivalents of the same time – the belfry of the Pskov Church of the Epiphany and the Pskov-caves monastery.
the Image of the bell tower of the temple Cosmas and Damian remained at pre-war photographs, and the bell – tower is in the old icons, including the icon from the shop of the merchant Ziglevica (“Vision of the elder Dorotheos”), which, incidentally, was a parishioner of this Church, says the scientific head of the project, art historian-architect Igor Lagunin. The reconstruction of the belfry and the whole temple was also made famous restorer Pskov Yury Spegalsky.
in addition to the bell tower “on the wards”, will be restored the dome of the Church of Cosmas and Damian, the walls, window and door openings.
