Trinity Church on the Marvelous Mountain

9 kilometers south-east of the city, along the most direct and shortest road to Yaroslavl, in the old days called Efremovskaya, on a hill at the confluence of the Vorzhekhoti and Chechera rivers stands the Church of the Holy Trinity.

In ancient times, the hill and the tract had a pagan name - Mare Mountain. In the 16th century, the "Syreyskaya Sloboda" was located around it, the inhabitants of which were engaged in the manufacture of rawhide. There were two wooden churches of St. Peter on the hill. Holy Trinity and St. Flora and Lavra, who were considered patrons of horses in Orthodoxy.

In 1674, Metropolitan Jonah Sysoevich of Rostov, known for his enormous construction activities, founded the Divnogorsky hermitage here, according to a certain vision, laying the stone church of St. Nicholas. Trinity, and renamed the tract Divnaya Gora. The name combines sacred and aesthetic motifs: an example was the Divnogorsky monastery near Antioch and in Asia Minor, where in the 6th century the famous Saint Semion Stylites, Divnogorets or the Marvelous Mountain asceticized in Sicily, where the "miracle" occurred - the appearance of the icon of Our Lady of Divnogorskaya Sicilia. The beauty of the surrounding landscape played its role from the height of the hill. A local legend, which probably arose in the XVIII-XIX centuries on the basis of a new name and legends about the events of the troubles of the early XVII century, speaks of another "miracle" - how the Tatars or Poles, who left Uglich and defeated the defenders of the city, saw resurrected warriors at dusk on the mountainside, mistaking them for them. sheaves planted by peasants. They saw it and fled in fear...

The temple founded by Jonah was completed 20 years later under his successor Joasaph in 1694. The picturesque composition of the monument consists of a five-domed church, a refectory, and a tent-roofed bell tower. The architecture of the church clearly shows the features of two periods and schools. The gallery and the arcturus belt of the central cube remind of the Ioninsky monuments of Rostov. Platbands with torn sandalwood, an octagonal window on the temple, round bell towers, faceted drums and heads are elements of the "Naryshkin Baroque" of the late 17th century. The interior has preserved paintings of the early 20th century, a carved iconostasis.

The temple icon "Trinity of the Old Testament" from the middle of the XVI century is located in the Museum of Ancient Russian Art and Culture named after Andrei Rublev.

With its stepped volumes, the silhouette of the heads and the bell tower, the temple naturally grows from the base of the hill and merges with the jagged border of the surrounding forest, creating a truly wondrous architectural and natural ensemble.