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Temple

history

A new wooden church was built

in 1750.From the documents At the beginning of the

kept at the church, it is known 19th century, Pozharki

that the first and the second belonged to Prince Golitsin

It is known that back in 1749, wooden churches in Pozharki Sergei Mikhailovich and

parishioners of the village of were built by the "diligence" of his wife Avdotya Ivanovna.

Pozharki, Alatyr district of the the parishioners. Thanks to her diligence, a

possession of the aide-de-camp new stone temple was built,

of the Prince P.V. Urusov, ap- which stands in the village
pealed to the Diocesan author- to this day.

ities for permission to build a

new church because the old

one was dilapidated and very In 1816, during a fire, the

cold. They also wanted to raise church burned to the ground,

money for the purchase of the like the whole village (from

bell. Since wooden churches here the name of the village
serve 100-120 years, it means is Pozharki).

that already in 1649 there was a

temple in the village.