Church of Zosima and Savvatiy

About museum

In 1819 the Church of Zosima and Savvatiy was built, consecrated in honor of the Solovetsky saints. Earlier Kargopol had a wooden church, but between 1815 and 1818 it was rebuilt in stone to a design by the St. Petersburg merchant and commercial counselor Stefan Alekseyevich Koposov. A distinctive feature of the church is its classicism and its massive drum capped by a flat dome. The north and south facades are distinguished by porticoes with four columns. Until 1917 the church was served by priests such as Georgy Dikarevsky, Nikolay Chelmogorsky and others. After the Great October Socialist Revolution the building was transferred to the Kargopol Museum. It now houses a concert and exhibition hall where concerts are held by the Kargopol Museum's choir of sacred music "Svetilen" and the exhibition "Revelations of the 17th Century" presents artifacts of Kargopol's ecclesiastical art.