Church of the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God on Navolok

The Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos on Navolok in Vologda is a preserved stone building constructed between 1750 and 1759 at the expense of merchant Afanasy Rybnikov. The church was erected on the site of a previous church dismantled in 1750 and served as a warm winter church for the Dmitrievsky parish. Initially, the main altar was dedicated to All Saints, but after the cholera epidemic of 1830–1831, it was reconsecrated in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos due to the veneration of the Semigorodny Icon of the Mother of God. After the closure of the parish churches in 1930 and the return of the buildings to the diocese in 1999, church life here is being revived in the form of a podvorie (dependency) of the Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery.