The Trinity Church is located in Vladimir, in its historical
center at the intersection of Museum Street and Podbelsky Street. It
is surrounded by old urban buildings of the mid-19th - early 20th
centuries. The overview of the church opens from the western and
southern sides. The best view point is the northwestern side of the
intersection of Muzeynaya and Podbelsky streets.
The Trinity
Church was first mentioned in 1626 in the description book of the
Vladimir Kremlin. Initially, the church was wooden and was built,
most likely, at the expense of the townspeople of Vladimir.
It is not
known if there was a temple on this site before. The mention of this
temple can also be found in 1628 and 1655. In 1719, the wooden Trinity
Church with a warm Sergius chapel burned down during a fire.
The
current church building was erected in 1740. In 1746, a chapel was added
to it from the north side, along with it, at the same time, a high
three-tiered bell tower was built, ending with a high spire. From the
south, a tent was attached to the bell tower.
Initially, the
temple building consisted of the main volume, which was an octagon on a
pillarless quadrangle, a refectory room and a semicircular apse. The
main volume is connected to the refectory room by a wide arched opening.
The main volume is a rather small room, which is now covered with a flat
ceiling. The floor here is wooden. The main volume of the Trinity Church
in plan is a square. The window openings of the building have wide
slopes and bulbous endings.
Once the altar apse was connected
by an opening of three arches, at present it is blocked. On the north
side, a new rectangular opening was made. The altar apse is a small
semicircular room, which is covered with a conch.
The building of
the Trinity Church was built on red brick lime mortar. The decorative
design of the temple is typical for the township temples of the late
17th and early 18th centuries. The facade of the building is decorated
with architraves with keeled kokoshniks; the pattern of the architraves
is nowhere repeated. The main volume of the building is typical for this
type of temples. The two upper tiers of bells were rebuilt at a later
time. In the spatial composition of the building, a high three-tiered
bell tower and the main quadrangle on the octagon, which ends with two
octals and an onion cupola, stand out.
The first tier of the bell
tower is a small room, which is covered with a box vault. Previously,
the premises of the first bell tier were connected to the tent on the
south side. This hole is now closed. A new opening was made on the north
side. It has a rectangular shape and connects the first tier of the bell
tower with the northern aisle of the temple.
The refectory in the
northern part is connected to the aisle by a wide arched opening. Near
the wide arched opening that connects the refectory and the first tier
of the bell tower in the western part, there is a small rectangular
opening that connects the tent.
The building of the temple is
made in traditional forms, characteristic of the township churches of
Suzdal and Vladimir of the late 17th - early 18th centuries.