Church of Saint John the Baptist on Opoka, Veliky Novgorod

Church of St. John on the Opoka From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Orthodox church Church of John the Baptist in Opoka Church of St. John the Forerunner on Opokah.jpg Church of John the Baptist in Opoka 58 ° 31′11 ″ with. sh. 31 ° 17′09 ″ c. D. H G I O A country	Flag of Russia.svg Russia City	Velikiy Novgorod Denomination	Orthodoxy Founder	Vsevolod Mstislavich Novgorod First mention	1127 Key Dates 1130 - transferred to the Ivanovo community of merchants-vushanikov 1453 - the new bell tower was destroyed and built 1934 - the church bell tower was demolished Status	Wiki Loves Monuments logo - Russia - without text.svg IPOs number 5310046011 Commons-logo.svg Church of St. John on Opoka on Wikimedia Commons Lua's error in Module: Cultural_Hiscal_Narod on line 940: attempt to concatenate field 'regid' (a nil value). UNESCO flag World Heritage Site Link	No. 604 in the World Heritage List ( en ) Criteria	ii, iv, vi Region Turning on	1992 ( 16th session ) The Church of St. John the Baptist on the Flats (on the Petryatin court) is located on the Yaroslav's Court in Veliky Novgorod, named after the prophet John the Baptist. Located to the west of the church of George.

History Laid in 1127 by Prince Vsevolod Mstislavich, and in 1130 a special statute was transferred to the Ivanovo community of wax merchants selling wax and honey. The Ivanovo organization of merchants (“Ivanovo's hundred”) consisted of the richest Novgorod merchants. Ivanovo merchants included merchants who contributed 50 hryvnia with silver. The contribution gave them the title of "vulgar", that is, hereditary, which was associated with a number of advantages. When the church of Ivan on Opoki there was a merchant court, headed by tysyatskim and consisting of three elders from the boyarsand two from merchants. It dealt with all the litigation on commercial matters. In the church of Ivan, control standards of measures were kept, such as “ Ivan 's elbow ” for measuring the length of cloth, “ruble ruby” for weighing precious metals, and scales - “waxed scalars” and “honey pood”.

In 1453, by the command of Archbishop Euphemia II, the ancient temple was destroyed, and a new one was built in its place, and the foundation and lower parts of the walls of the old building were used to erect the new church, but its main architectural appearance was partially repeated, like all temples rebuilt by Euthymius II, the Church of John, despite its large size, has one chapter.

In 1934, the church bell tower was demolished. During World War II, the church suffered greatly, completely losing the drum, dome, roof, and getting holes in the walls and the northern apse. Restored in the mid-1950s.

Bibliography Kushnir I.I. Architecture of Novgorod. - L .: Stroyizdat, Leningr. department, 1991. Trifonov A.N. The history of Veliky Novgorod in the XX century. - M .: Northern pilgrim. - p. 257-368. - 390 s. - ISBN 978-5-94431-299-0.