Old Ascension (Tikhvin) Church

This tiered wooden church on the high bank of the Tvertsa is built of three diminishing octagons set one upon another and finished with a small cupola. It was raised from logs in the seventeenth century and remains the chief monument of wooden architecture in Torzhok, while beside it stands the stone Ascension Church of the nineteenth century that replaced it. No services are held here, since the church has been handed over to the museum.

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