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church of the ascension, kolomenskoye


states: [russia]

category: cultural

year: 1994

location: Moscow, the South District

region: Europe and North America

latitude/longitude: 55.6555600000, 37.6738900000

visited: 2010

Church Of The Ascension, Kolomenskoye

The Church of the Ascension was built in 1532 on the imperial estate of Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, to celebrate the birth of the prince who was to become Tsar Ivan IV ('the Terrible'). One of the earliest examples of a traditional wooden tent-roofed church on a stone and brick substructure, it had a great influence on the development of Russian ecclesiastical architecture.

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