Church of Elijah the Prophet (Belozersk)

Church of Elijah the Prophet is the wooden Russian Orthodox church of a tiered type located at Belozersk in Vologda region. It was built in 1690–1696 and consecrated in honor of the prophet Elijah. The church is listed as the cultural heritage site of federal significance in Russia. The church was built in 1690–1696 at the western outskirts of Belozersk at the place of an old tented-roof church, “decrepit by longevity”. Some information about that ancient building can be found in the Patrol Book of 1617–1618. The church was used as a summer (cold) one. In winter time all services were held in the nearby church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos. There was no bell tower at the new St. Elijah Church but modern Russian researcher K. I. Kozlov had suggested that the two neighboring churches had a common separate bell tower. If so, this complex was the typical example of the northern three-component churchyard. By the beginning of the 20th century, the building had reached in a modified form: the log house was sheathed with hemp, large windows were cut in the main quadrangle, and the plowshare was replaced by iron in the cover of the domes. In 1962–1968, the church was restored according to the project of Evgeny Alexandrovich Chernikov (scientific guidance by Boris Vasilievich Gnedovsky). During the restoration, the quadrangle, refectory and apse were freed from late

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