Church of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos

The church of the XVII century in the village Varzuga is a monument of wooden architecture. It is part of the complex of monuments of wooden architecture Varzuga together with the Afanasiev Church, bell tower The Assumption Complex, the church St. Nicholas the Wonderworker,  Saints Peter and Paul Church and the chapel of the Nameless monk of Tersky.

The Assumption Church was built in the classical tent style. Its height is 34 meters.

The church was built on the principle of the "golden section". At the base, it is in the form of a cross: a quadrilateral of the central pillar and four adjacent branch pipes. The upper part of the church includes an eight-walled log house, the tent itself, the base of the dome (the so-called neck) and the dome-dome, crowned with an eight-pointed cross. The temple is decorated with kokoshniks and scales.

There are 84 icons in the iconostasis of the church, and some of them-the works of the Solovetsky masters-were left from the old church that stood here earlier.

In 1947, the Assumption Church was investigated by a well-known Soviet architect Alexander Viktorovich Opolovnikov, and in 1961 another architect- a resident of Murmansk Nikolai Petrovich Bystryakov - created an exact model of the church. Now it is stored in the Murmansk Regional Museum of Local Lore.

In 1968, a project was put forward to move the temple from Varzuga in the vicinity of Murmansk, however, did not give these plans a go. On the 300th anniversary of the church, local historian Ivan Fyodorovich Ushakov published an essay "Assumption Church in the village of Varzuga".

In 1999, the church was transferred to the use of the Russian Orthodox Church and closed for restoration, although a number of church services were held until 2004. The restoration took two years, from 2006 to 2008.