Permission was granted to build the stone Annunciation Church with the Archangel Chapel that existed in the village of Kolentsy in 1752 at the request of the Prime Major of the Life Guards, Vice Sergeant Prince Grigory Patrikeyev son of Kildishev and the Moscow First Guild of Merchants and the Needle Factory owners Nikolai and Ivan Pankratiev children of Ryumin and the iron factories owner Stepan Abramov son of Abramov, which was consecrated on October 23, 1775.
In 1871, a warm side chapel was extended, in which two chapels were built - in honor of the Archangel Michael and the holy blessed prince Alexander Nevsky.
The parish included: the village of Kolentsy - 264 households, the villages of Velyaminovka - 19 households, Volohovo - 14 households and Vyselki Volohovskie (both 3 miles away) - 13 households. The number of male parishioners was 943 people, female - 1122 people [3].
The church is distinguished by its slender tiered silhouette. Its two octagons (octagons) are placed on a rather complex in volume base in the form of a three-petal polyhedron, in turn, two-light. The high bell tower at the western end of the refectory also represents the composition of "octagon on octagon". All transitions from volume to volume in the church and in the bell tower are made through swollen, slightly domed roofs, giving the silhouette of the building a baroque, not rectilinearly simplified, but picturesque look [2].
In 1872, Moscow merchant and hereditary honorary citizen Alexander Kuznetsov donated sacred church accessories for two church chapels of the Annunciation Church, namely: a silver-gilded vessel with the same accessories weighing 2 pounds 10 zolotniks, 2 large gospels covered with gilded brass, 3 copper silver-plated chandeliers (one of which has 24 and the other has 12 candlesticks), 2 altar crosses aplica, gilded through fire, a velvet shroud embroidered with gold with a case, 17 copper silver-plated candlesticks (of which 12 are large for local icons and 6 are portable), velvet airs embroidered with gold, 2 banners with bronze rizas on their icons, 2 altar icons of the Mother of God, 2 altar cross, 12 monthly menaia, 3 service books, a large service book and a book of various petitions. In total, for a total of 1,500 rubles, for which the Ryazan diocesan authorities asked him for the blessing of the Holy Synod. (1871/72, No. 12)[4]
According to the 1873 staffing, the clergy were supposed to have 1 priest and 1 psalm-reader[1][5][6].
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