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In Naberezhnye Chelny there are many architectural religious monuments. In the small village of Orlovka, not leaving the city limits, there is a temple of the Holy Cosmos and Damian, which was built in 1859 - the oldest building in Naberezhnye Chelny, included in the number of historical monuments of the city. The author of this masterpiece was the architect KA Ton.

In the 18th century it was a wooden church completely burnt during the fire that happened in 1844. The Yelabuga merchant Ivan Ivanovich Stakheyev donated funds for the construction of a new, already stone church for the project of Constantine Ton. In November 1859, a new one, executed in Byzantine style with pseudo-Russian motifs, a single-table, medium-sized church was consecrated in honor of the Holy Brothers Cosmas and Damian (as well as the former).

In the 18th century it was a wooden church completely burnt during a fire , which happened in 1844. Yelabuga merchant Ivan Ivanovich Stakheyev donated funds for the construction of a new, already stone church, designed by Konstantin Ton.

In the Soviet 30's. the temple was closed, used for a long time as a storehouse for storing potatoes, grains, even pesticides, then completely abandoned, and it was empty until 1985, until repair work began to open the architectural and art school there. In 1990, the church was transferred to the Kazan diocese, reconstructed and restored with funds donated by believers.

Thanks to the talented local architect Marquise Basyrov, who worked on the restoration of the monument and created a unique ensemble of fencing with gates, pavilions and chapels, today we can enjoy the view a beautiful old temple of the Kosmy and Damian bessrebreniki.
Visit to Metropolitan Anastasi of the city of Naberezhnye Chelny and the Church of the Saints of the Cosmos and Damian Saints of the Whole

Volumetric forms of the temple, the tent Coln, dressing in Russian-Byzantine spirit contributed to the fact that the construction was carried to the monuments of religious architecture of the 19th century and the city's top attractions

Church -. besstolpnaya and one-domed, has a traditional symmetric axial composition. To the side entrances are low porches. Above the entrances are decorated three arched windows, in the piers - stylized pilasters. Above the main entrance there is a bell tower in three tiers, covered with an octagonal tent, with auditory windows located in clypees. A narrow refectory with a length of 5 windows is arranged at the church.

In the 19th century, the church had a guardianship. Today, the church's board of trustees also operates the city's board of trustees. Since 1876, the only mixed Tzarist Orthodox primary school in Tatarstan was functioning in Orlovka, where the rural population of both sexes, Oryol and from nearby villages (2,182 souls: 1,054 males and 1,137 females) were literate. The church-parish Sunday school "Cyrillicus" operates on the territory of the Kosmy and Damian temple (the parish church of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Kazan diocese)

The Temple of the Saints of Kosmos and Damian is an interesting object for tourists to visit in terms of history, culture, architecture, religion and purely aesthetics

How to get to

Address: Naberezhnye Chelny, p. Orlovka, Naberezhnochelninsky prospect, 37A. Go along the central city avenue of Musa Jalil, then along Naberezhnye Chelny Avenue from the entrance to the city from Kazan and the station, about seven km after the junction in front of the Old City on the right you can see the temple.