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Russian scholar Evgeny Nikolayevich Trubetskoy describes the importance of church architecture within and around the Orthodox icons. He writes that "the church and its icons form an indivisible whole" and that "every icon has its own special internal architecture" which, though important in and of itself, is ultimately subordinated to the ...
Flickr photos of Orthodox Church Architecture (in English) Church Etiquette (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia) (in English) The Church Building and Its Arrangement (in English) House of God Archived 2017-05-24 at the Wayback Machine by Rev. Thomas Fitzgerald (in English) Catalog of Orthodox architecture (in Russian) Sergey Zagraevsky.
The Peter and Paul Cathedral (Russian: Петропавловский собор, romanized: Petropavlovskiy sobor) is a Russian Orthodox cathedral located inside the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is the first and oldest landmark in St. Petersburg, built between 1712 and 1733 on Hare Island along the Neva River.
The Romanov Tercentenary Church was to combine traditional forms of ancient Russian architecture with modern technologies of the time. One of the major conditions posed to the competing architects was that the appearance of the Church should contain visual references to the time of the beginning of the reign of the Romanov dynasty, i.e. to the architecture of the Muscovite Russia at the ...
The Trinity Cathedral (Russian: Троицкий собор, Troitsky sobor; Russian: Троице-Измайловский собор Troitse-Izmailovsky sobor), sometimes called the Troitsky Cathedral, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is a formerly Russian Imperial Army Izmaylovskiy regiment Russian Orthodox church, an architectural landmark - a late example of the Empire style, built between ...
During the 1917 Russian Revolution, the cathedral was damaged during the fighting. Afterwards, it was closed by the Bolshevik regime. During the 1950s, along with the other surviving churches in the Moscow Kremlin, it was preserved as a museum. After 1992, occasional religious services resumed. The church building underwent a restoration in 2009.
The plan is based on a Greek cross and is designed in the Russian version of the Byzantine style, but with a Renaissance flavor. The building features characteristic copper Onion domes atop four octagonal belfries and a large central copper-covered dome. Each dome is topped by a large, gilded Russian Orthodox cross. [3] [4]
The Russian Orthodox church was drastically weakened in May 1922, when the Renovated (Living) Church, a reformist movement backed by the Soviet secret police, broke away from Patriarch Tikhon (also see the Josephites and the Russian True Orthodox Church), a move that caused division among clergy and faithful that persisted until 1946.