The Suzdal land is rich in shrines, long revered by the people: churches, chapels, monasteries and temples. One of them is the "Znamenskaya Church", 1777 (Suzdal district, Pogost-Bykovo village) - a cultural heritage site of regional significance.
In the village of Pogost-Bykovo, the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Znamenie" was erected in 1777 through the zeal of parishioners. The church has a main volume in the form of a low quadrangle, which had a covering in the form of a gable roof, with a semicircular altar and a refectory, to which a bell tower under a tent-"pipe" adjoins. The walls of the church were covered with frescoes.
After the revolution of 1917, the first detachment of the "Red Guard" in the entire Suzdal district was created here. The ideological revolutionaries showed themselves by breaking up a religious procession in Suzdal: it was organized by believers who supported the appeal of Patriarch Tikhon, who denounced the Soviet government for persecuting the Russian Orthodox Church. In the village of Pogost-Bykovo, the church continued to operate until 1929. Only then was it closed, and the last rector, priest Alexei Dmitrievsky, was repressed. Since then, a club appeared on the site of the church, which "worked" until the 1950s, until Bykovo became part of the Malenkov collective farm (later "Zarya"). Then the building was occupied by a machine and tractor station, and a milk separation point was installed in the altar.
In October 1960, the Znamenskaya Church received the status of an architectural monument. Today, the church is listed as belonging to the Suzdal Monastery Deanery. A courtyard of the local Rizopolozhensky Convent.
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