One-day votive church

They were simple in design and small in size, and usually lasted a limited time.The construction could start during the preceding night but had to be finished, and the church consecrated, before nightfall.Usually these churches were erected on a site where no previous structure had stood and were built through communal labour.[2][3] According to Russell Zguta, the appearance of such churches is a uniquely Russian response to the Black Death, and he compares them to the Western European response, which also involved religious rites, votive objects and churches.The tradition declined and eventually disappeared as more rational anti-plague measures were gradually enacted.
St Varlaam church in Pskov was built during a pestilence in one day in 1466 and was replaced by a stone building (pictured) in 1495.
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