Tserkov' Arkhangela Mikhaila

The temple in the name of Archangel Michael, stone, with a chapel in the refectory in the name of St. and a miracle. Nicholas. Built in 1867 instead of the abolished city Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk church, on November 6 of that year, a chapel church was consecrated. The main throne was consecrated on September 9, 1872. On June 7, 1877, a project was approved for the installation of arches instead of the ceiling in the refectory. It is surrounded by a cast-iron fence. The two-colored quadrangle of the temple is crowned with decorative five-domed. A five-sided apse adjoins it in the east, and a refectory connected to a three-tier tented bell tower in the west. The architecture of the church is made in the early version of the "Russian" style. An analogue of this temple is the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk church in the village of Rakhmanovka, Vadinsky district. Closed in the 1930s, the church was reopened in the second half of 1945. Church in the name of St. Archangel Michael, with a warm chapel in the name of St. and miracles. Nicholas, stone, built in 1867. Clergy in the state laid: priest, deacon and psalm-reader. Salaries 539 rubles., Fraternal income 600 rubles. Manor land 1 ½ dess., Field 37 dess. Houses for the priest and the psalm-reader are church. Parishioners husband. gender 922 souls, wives. gender 926 souls. The parish consists of Sloboda residents. There are parish trusteeship and a parish school. “Penza diocese. Historical and Statistical Description »Edition of the Editorial Board of the Diocesan Gazette. Penza Printing House of the Provincial Board. 1907