Scientific publications

The Paraskeva Pyatnitsa Chapel of Barlaam of Khutyn in the Zaonezhye village of Pod’’yel’niki is examined to settle an overall method for timing various stages in the construction of traditional wooden churches. The construction history of the monument, including the time of its erection, reconstruction and completion, has been unveiled by full-scale study using an architectural and ar-chaeological scale for timing Karelian churches and chapels. The data, obtained by the earlier study of the Chapel in the 1940–1980s, was taken into consideration. Dendrochronological analysis of the monument’s wood samples was made; the obtained results were compared with the author’s local Zaonezhye dendroscale. As a result, the timing of erection and construction stages of the chapel were determined more accurately: wood from a late 18th century barn was used for the building of its prayer room; the prayer room, the narthex and the belfry of the chapel were built simultaneously in the early 1860s; the long final stage, at which the entrance was attached, the exterior of the framework was lined and the windows, the inner doors and the ceiling of the prayer room were changed, lasted from the 1870s to the early 20th century.