Flora and Lavra Church (Voskresenskaya)

The Flora and Lavra Church is located on the banks of the Volga River near the ship pier.

At the end of the XVI century, the church of the Cathedral of the Virgin and Flora and Lavra stood in those places. But it undoubtedly existed before, as it was listed at the princely stables, which were temporarily removed from the Kremlin due to lack of space. Saints Florus and Laurus are the patrons of horses, which explains why this church was attached to the stables. The street that passed through here was called Konyushennaya. It was along it that the horses were led to the princely palace. The street led to the Kremlin's eastern gate, which was called the Florovsky Gate.

The church survived the troubles and upheavals of the Time of Troubles, and the same church at the stables is listed in the Scribal Books of 1663. It was made of wood with a refectory, a tent, with one chapter.

In 1762, it was replaced by a stone church, built at the expense of parishioners, which had the thrones of the Resurrection of Christ and the Cathedral of the Virgin. There was no place for the chapel of Flora and Lavra, but the memory of him was always alive, the temple icon was kept. Before the revolution, it was referred to as either Voskresenskaya or Voskresenskaya-Florovskaya, and only in the 20th century it changed its name and became known as the Flora and Lavra Church.

The church was built in the best traditions of the established Uglich temple architecture.: It is tall, with three "lights" (that is, with three horizontal rows of windows), with small domes on thin drums. The windows are framed by Baroque-style outstretched architraves. The temple had two floors − the upper, "summer" temple and the lower, "warm" one. A distinctive feature of the church was the freestanding bell tower, which closely resembled the cathedral bell tower in the Kremlin. A beautiful two-sided porch led to the upper temple, attached from the west.

In Soviet times, the church, which decorated the panorama of the Uglich embankment, was disfigured beyond recognition.: The bell tower and domes were demolished, and the porch was rebuilt. The decapitated church stood in the middle of a park on the embankment, and various institutions were located in it in turn, which, with their remodeling of the building, only aggravated the damage.

In 2005, the restoration of the temple began. On October 9, 2008, new domes shone with gold on the quadrangle of the temple. In the same year, divine services began in the lower church.