Selengushi as a settlement was founded in the 1740s, and twenty years later, at the expense of the landowner Maria Georgievna Shamsheva, a stone church was built in them in honor of the Beheading of John the Baptist (1763). This is the most beautiful temple of the Baroque era with the chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker that existed until the very closing and was abolished in the middle of the 19th century in honor of the Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos. Due to the location of the aisle on the north side, the building is asymmetrical in plan. In the 1930s, the temple was closed and began to collapse. Now the witnesses of the former greatness are only crosses over the church. But once the village, albeit distinguished by its crowdedness (the number of inhabitants did not reach half a thousand), was a volost center, but everything is left in the past.
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