ARCHITECTURE
wooden architecture — research, maintenance and restoration

Sts. Kyrik and Iulita Chapel is located on the western coast of Bolshoy Klimenetskiy island behind the group of houses in the village of Vorobjy at the upland covered by spruces and is a dominant building of the whole settlement. It is a double-level household structure which consists of several frameworks. The horizontal axis is formed by two frameworks, which are rectangular in layout and put close to each other without any joint between the framework of the chapel itself and its refectory. The refectory and the passage frameworks is 1.12 m wider than the one of a chapel, that is why the southern wall of the passage forms a ledge. The vertical axis of the composition is formed by an octahedral belfry with a tent-top roof resting on nine pillars.

The entry of the Sts. Kyrik and Ulita Chapel is one flight of stairs without any roof, located along the southern wall. The chapel framework is lower then the refectory and the passage ones. Each of them is covered with a double-sloping roof. Composition of the building is amplified with onion-shaped domes on the belfry tent and on the framework of the Sts. Kyrik and Ulita chapel itself. Both the southern and northern facades have double windows. The western facade is has a cut-through asymmetrically located window. The walls are fixed according to the traditional method with the logs’ ends protruding from the edges of the walls in the corners (‘v oblo’), and an octahedron is fixed so that logs’ ends do not protrude from the walls (‘v lapu’). The roof is made of planks without use of any nails, with rarely poles cut in. The tent roof is raftered. The belfry has double pillars (except for the central one). The bearing pillars are not carved and have round section. The outer ones are decorative, of square section, with carvings on them. Poles ends are covered with fascia boards decorated with carvings in the form of rotational paired cogs and semicircular ledges with pierced-through holes. The boards of the tent and octahedron have peak-shaped endings.

Traditional decorative elements of the interior have not remained.