Church of the Savior on the Archangel

The Church of the Savior on the Archangel was built on the site of former wooden churches destroyed by fires. The blessing for the construction of the stone temple was given in 1746. On December 30, 1751, the lower church was consecrated in honor of the Nativity of Christ and Archangel Michael. The upper, summer church was consecrated in honor of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God.

The Church of the Savior on the Archangel is slender, two-storied, with a bell tower attached to the west. In the 19th century, the sound of eleven bells spread over the surrounding hills. The icon of the All-Merciful Savior, 3 meters 10 centimeters high, was especially revered. Contemporaries noted that he was revered as miraculous, was abundantly hung with pendants and very much resembled the image of the Savior from the Resurrection Cathedral. This shrine from the Vologda Spaso-Prilutsky monastery, as legend says, was acquired in the 17th century by the merchant Zhdanov, and then transferred to the Spaso-Arkhangelsk Temple. The church had a parish school attached to it. An almshouse was set up for women. It was the largest and richest parish after the Resurrection Cathedral.

In 1855, with the blessing of the Holy Synod, the Church of the Savior of the Archangel became a church of the same faith.

In the 30s, the temple was closed. It housed the district printing house, which printed the local newspaper Znamya Ilyich. Typing was the old-fashioned way- manually. The smell in the church was no longer incense, but printing ink. The fate of his shrines is unknown, apparently, most of them are lost to us.

The Cathedral of the Savior on the Archangel was returned to the Orthodox Church at the end of the 20th century. Divine services are held in the church on patronal holidays. During the procession along the Romanov side with the miraculous icon of the Savior from the Resurrection Cathedral, a long stop takes place at the Archangel Temple for pilgrims to rest and eat.