Pyatnitskaya Church in Staritsa

The Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God, which everyone calls the Pyatnitskaya, stands right below the hillfort, where the market once made its noise. The stone church was consecrated in 1750, and in the nineteenth century galleries and two rotunda side chapels were added to it, which is why the building looks like several churches grown together. Beside it survive the white-stone smithies of the former trading row.

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