Church of the Korsun Icon of the Mother of God

At the entrance to Uglich from Yaroslavl, we will be greeted by the first temple, spectacularly towering over the houses of Korsun Church.

In fairly remote times, perhaps in the 13th century, under the Uglich Prince Roman, the monastery of St. Macarius the Egyptian arose on the northwestern outskirts of the posad above the earthen rampart and the steep bank of the Selivanovsky stream. As it stood on the rampart, it was one of the lines of defense of the city, and at the same time provided spiritual protection. During the Polish devastation of the Time of Troubles, it was destroyed and was no longer restored. In memory of him, a wooden tent church of the Intercession with a chapel of Macarius the Egyptian was built there. On the ruins of the monastery, residents discovered an icon of the Korsun Mother of God, which turned out to be miraculous and has since been especially revered in the temple. In the first half of the 18th century, when the earthen rampart was no longer there, they decided to build a stone church in place of the wooden one. The main altar was consecrated in honor of the Korsun Icon of the Mother of God, after the venerated icon. The ancestral throne is dedicated to Macarius the Egyptian.

The church was built in 1730 and partly in the traditions of ancient Russian architecture, partly in the style of "Naryshkin Baroque". She is extremely slender. It consists of a temple part, a refectory and a bell tower – all the usual parts placed on the same axis. The slender five-domed structure on tall, thin drums gives the church an upward orientation, as was done in many earlier churches in Uglich. The four–tiered bell tower, modeled after its contemporary, the cathedral bell tower in the Uglich Kremlin, is very good. It has the same high pillar with a circular platform in the bell tier, and two tiers of completion with a small dome.

The temple was closed most recently in 1941. For several years, together with the church of Demetrius "on the field", they remained the only lamps of Orthodoxy in the ancient city. And it is symbolic that it was opened first in 1994. It was the beginning of the local revival of Orthodox culture.Unfortunately, all the interior decoration has not been preserved, but from the outside the church looks like in the old days − bright and elegant, it welcomes visitors from Yaroslavl.