Chelmuzhi

Chelmuzhi is an old fishing village on the eastern shore of Lake Onega, facing the long Chelmuzhi spit across the water. It was the centre of a Novgorodian parish district and appears in fifteenth-century records. Its wooden Church of the Epiphany, with its steep tent roof, is one of the notable old churches of the Onega country. Tradition dates the church to the early seventeenth century, although the surviving timbers point to later rebuilding.