Meldova tsässon
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Meldova tsässon
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| Location | Polovina, Meremäe Parish, Estonia |
| Geographic coordinates | 57°48′36.97″N 27°30′26.97″E / 57.8102694°N 27.5074917°E |
| Affiliation | Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church |
| Country | Estonia |
| Year consecrated | ca 1753 |
| Materials | wood |
Coordinates: 57°48′36.97″N 27°30′26.97″E / 57.8102694°N 27.5074917°E
Meldova tsässon is a small Seto chapel, situated in Polovina village, Meremäe rural municipality in Võru County in Estonia, about 5 kilometres east from Obinitsa village.
The building is not state-protected. It is in good condition. The estimated time of building is 1753 (Läänelaid et al. 2005). Tsässon is dedicated to the Great martyr St. Anastasia. In addition to Meldova, November 11, also known as Nahtsipäev is a tsässon feast in Uusvada, Rokina, Serga, Küllätüvä and Matsuri. According to a folk myth, it was built by Saava Kirillov who once discovered the icon of St. Anastasia and decided to build a sanctuary as there were no chapels dedicated to Anastasia in the region. Anastasia (in Seto language Nahtsi) is a martyr in church tradition, Seto people speak of her as the protector of women and a health saint. The grandchild of Saava, Gabril Kirillo renovated the tsässon and also replaced the cross on the roof with a new one.
Meldova tsässon is a small pine cross-beam building, which has a square floor plan and backwards halving with one interior room (ca 5 m2) and an open entrance room. The dimensions of the tsässon are 382 (l) x 256 (w) cm together with the entrance-room, which makes up 83 cm of the total building. The entrance-room has a saw-profiled barrier made from vertical boards. There has probably never been a gate. The door posts have been hand hewn. The leaf of the door is made from two hand-hewn wide boards fixed on the crosspiece. Two granite stones are used in front of the entrance as stairs. The height of the building from the granite stone foundation to where the rafter and the wall unite is 1.77 m. Some of the logs have been replaced in time. Tsässon does not have any boarding on the inside or on the outside. The wall in the north-west has a single-pane wooden window. A former hole for a cauldron is situated in the south-eastern wall in the penultimate upper log. There is no ceiling or floor beams. The floor is made of half-beams hewn from above; they are about 12–17 cm of diameter on average. Half-beams have been tenoned in the end walls. It is probable that the floor is original. At first, the building had a board-roof, as the baulks with raising-plate construction and earlier photos indicate. Today, the roof has a double fir tree-shingle roof. The earlier raising-plate baulks have been replaced by hewn barling baulks. A tall metal welded cross is also on the roof, placed on a round dome. The cross of today was made in the 1990s during the replacement of the roof and made on the example of the old cross.
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