Church of the Trasfiguration on Ilyina street. Velikiy Novgorod. Russia Audiobook (Free)

The audioguide tells the story, represents the architecture and reports interesting factual statements about the church from the Transfiguration on Elia Street, one of Novgorod’s most significant monuments, directly and definitely from the Byzantine culture of the Paleologist era.

In the III Novgorod Chronicle, of the end of the 17th century, it is said that “in the summertime of 6886 (1378) the church of our Lord God and Our Savior Jesus Christ was frescoed in the name of the Holy Transfiguration, by order about Church from the Trasfiguration on Ilyina street. Velikiy Novgorod. Russia from the commendable boiaro devotee to the Lord, Vasilij Danilovi?, and the community of via Elia. The fresco was made with the Greek professional Theophane … “.

The first mention of the Church from the Transfiguration of the Savior dates back to the 12th century. It is from the miraculous salvation of the city of Novgorod with the soldiers of Andrej Bogoljubskij who acquired besieged it.

According to the star, defending the city was the altarpiece, depicting the “Madonna of the Sign”, that was kept in the church. In 1374, the inhabitants of Elia Road, the main street of the marketplace Area, changed the wooden church with one in stone. It had been consecrated by Archbishop Aleksej, using the participation from the clergy of the Santa Sofia cathedral. This attests to the importance the chapel occupied and the prestige of its position. The inside from the chapel strikes for its height, for the lighting system and for the frescoes that have been conserved by Theophane, the Greek Byzantine designer. You can examine the 3D style of the chapel and observe its interior through the MuByz App. The audioguide has been made by specialists in neuro-scientific history and art.