The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Yuryev-Polsky was built in 1769. The temple on this site has been known since 1712. It was built by Kirill, a monk of the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsky Monastery, and not just built, but erected several wooden cells nearby for the new Pokrovsky Convent for girls. However, the monastery did not last long here, four nuns were transferred to the Vvedensky Convent, and the church was left standing on the bank of the Koloksha River, unused. In the petition of the Yuryevsk povitchik Grigory Menshikov to the Holy Synod, it is indicated that the monastery existed here before the Lithuanian devastation, and also reports on the desolation of the convent. It was even proposed to move the church from here. The wooden Pokrovskaya Church was soon converted into a parish church. In 1768, the church "due to the negligence of the sexton and the deacon" burned down completely, but the residents of the surrounding houses managed to save books, valuable utensils and icons from the fire. A year later, the parishioners rebuilt their church in stone. This building has survived to this day: a tall five-domed church with numerous carved decorations on the facades and beautiful window frames.
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