Church of Cosmas and Damian
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The Church of St. Cosmas and Damian on Kholop
Street , was a church in medieval Novgorod the Great located in the Nerev End
, just north of the Detinets
. It was a wooden church first built by Fedor Khotovich in 1271. It was rebuilt in 1303, probably after a fire in the Nerev End. and about a generation later was the parish church of Archbishop Vasilii Kalika prior to his election as archbishop of Novgorod in 1330 (he was known as Grigorii Kalika before taking monastic vows). Vasilii's parish church in Kholop Street was rebuilt in 1350 by the Posadnik (mayor) Iurii Ivanovich That church apparently burned in 1352, the year Archbishop Vasilii died of the plague. It is unclear if a new church was ever built on the site; there is no longer a church at that location, which is now a park north of the Novgorod Kremlin.
Kholop
Kholops were feudally dependent people in Russia between the 10th and early 18th centuries. Their legal status was close to that of serfs.- Etymology :The word kholop was first mentioned in a chronicle for the year of 986. Its etymology is unclear...
Street , was a church in medieval Novgorod the Great located in the Nerev End
Kontsy
Кontsy literally "ends", were the five boroughs into which medieval Novgorod the Great was divided. They were based on the three original settlements that combined to form the city toward the end of the tenth century: the Nerev End, the Liudin End , and the Slavno End; two later additions -...
, just north of the Detinets
Novgorod Kremlin
Novgorod Kremlin stands on the left bank of the Volkhov River about two miles north of where it empties out of Lake Ilmen.-History:...
. It was a wooden church first built by Fedor Khotovich in 1271. It was rebuilt in 1303, probably after a fire in the Nerev End. and about a generation later was the parish church of Archbishop Vasilii Kalika prior to his election as archbishop of Novgorod in 1330 (he was known as Grigorii Kalika before taking monastic vows). Vasilii's parish church in Kholop Street was rebuilt in 1350 by the Posadnik (mayor) Iurii Ivanovich That church apparently burned in 1352, the year Archbishop Vasilii died of the plague. It is unclear if a new church was ever built on the site; there is no longer a church at that location, which is now a park north of the Novgorod Kremlin.