According to the "Historical and Statistical Description of Churches and Parishes of the Vladimir Diocese" (1898), a wooden Resurrection Church on this site has been documented since 1646, and 32 years later, a heated Vvedenskaya Church was built alongside it. The exact construction date of the existing building is unknown, but comparative analysis allows us to date it with varying degrees of certainty to the late 17th century. During Soviet times, the church lost both its bell tower, added in the 18th century, and its domes; closer to the 1990s, the completion was restored, and crosses were even placed on them. The crosses we see on the church today are lightning-proof. The Resurrection Church stands in a former merchant settlement opposite the largest and most impressive house of merchant Semyon Ershov. It is likely that he financed the construction of this church. It was possibly built by the same team that erected such remarkable churches in Gorokhovets as the Trinity-St. Nicholas Cathedral and the Sretensky Cathedral of the monastery of the same name. The massive two-story rectangular church is set on a high basement. The church is an example of a large five-domed church typical of the posad, with an asymmetrical spatial composition on a developed basement with two-story porches of a pillarless church without a refectory and a single lower level bell tower. It is a typical architectural monument, characteristic of the Gorokhovets school of architecture, with features of 17th-century religious and residential architecture.
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