Peryn Chapel

The Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos on Peryn (Russian: Церковь Рождества Богородицы на Перыни, romanized: Tserkov Rozhdestva Bogoroditsy na Peryni), in the environs of Veliky Novgorod is one of the region's oldest churches, dating from the 1220s.

The church is located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from Veliky Novgorod, by the source of the Volkhov River where it flows out of Lake Ilmen.

The Peryn Chapel is on the World Heritage list as a part of object 604 Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings.

[1] Presumably, the church was built on a site previously consecrated to the pagan god Perun, hence the name.

It was fully restored after World War II and returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1990s.