Stone Elias Church is located in the historic center Korop. This unique structure that combines the secular, military and religious features and the unique fortified church on the Left Bank Ukraine, which survives to this day. The exact date of foundation and the original purpose of the building is unknown. It is believed that the church was built in the middle. 18c. Although known connoisseur of Ukrainian architecture, MP Tsapenko dates the start of construction of the end of the XVII century. Taking into account the large wall thickness (about 2 meters), he believed that originally it was a fortress-type towers, the keep, which was later - in 18. rebuilt as a church. The structure of the church which was destroyed several times and surgery consists of several parts, probably built at different times: two-story nave with an apse of the church, Babintsy and adjoined on the south side of a two-story rectangular volume. The width of the church hall is very small - less than 5 m. The structure of the Elias Church differs considerably from common to Siverschine spatial compositions of other churches. According to this hypothesis, and appeared on its fortification destination. It is believed that the tower had loopholes and gun, and space on the south side was meant to stay garrison and storage boepripasov.V thickness of the southern wall of the nave is a step in the upper tier of the tower. At the bottom of the western part of Babintsy preserved the original loop-hole for handguns, which is also an additional argument in favor of the hypothesis that the original defense of this iconic structure. If we take into account the fact that Corop in XVII-XVIII centuries. was a place of permanent deployment of artillery Getmanschiny, perhaps initially building really could be a tower of strength Koropskoy in the XVII century. or artillery depots. Although a possible explanation unusual planning decisions of the church and a large wall thickness is the assumption that it was building a master who had no experience in such construction. Back in the 30 years of the twentieth century. top of the church was dismantled and a long time she stood in the ruins. Now the church is under reconstruction.