Maloshuyka

Maloshuyka lies near the mouth of the river of the same name on the Onega coast of the White Sea. Its rural district belonged to the Kozhozero monastery in the seventeenth century. After an earlier church burned, a wooden Church of St Nicholas was built in 1638. Its tall tent roof rose above an octagonal upper structure and could be seen across the surrounding villages. The churchyard gave the scattered Pomor communities along the river a common centre of worship.