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The Church of the Transfiguration (Russian: Церковь Преображения Господня) is the most remarkable part of the pogost. It is not heated and is, therefore, called a summer church and does not hold winter services. Its altar was laid June 6, 1714, as inscribed on the cross located inside the church. This church was built ...
The ensemble of the Turchasovsky pogost (Arkhangelsk region), 1780s-1790s. Lazar's Church from the Murom monastery in Kizhi (Karelia). Late 15th century (?) Probably the oldest monument of Russian wooden architecture. The spread of Christianity in Russia brought with it the need to build churches, which could not always be satisfied by stone ...
Kizhi Pogost: Karelia: 1990 544; i, iv, v (cultural) The architectural ensemble of the Kizhi Pogost (enclosure) on the Kizhi Island in the Lake Onega comprises two wooden churches from the 18th century (the Church of the Transfiguration and the Church of the Intercession) and a clock tower from 1862. They were built in a unique artistic style ...
Kizhi (Russian: Ки́жи, IPA:; Karelian: Kiži) is an island near the geometrical center of Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia (Medvezhyegorsky District), Russia.It is elongated from north to south and is about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) long, 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) wide and is about 68 kilometres (42 mi) away from the capital of Karelia, Petrozavodsk.
There are 89 wooden architectural monuments of the 15th to 20th centuries on the island. The most remarkable of those is Kizhi Pogost of the early 18th century which consists of a summer church with 22 domes, a winter church with nine domes, and a belfry. The pogost was included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1990.
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In the central uyezds of 15th–16th centuries pogosts were small settlements with a church and a graveyard, like Kizhi Pogost or Kadnikov Pogost. In modern Russian, pogosts usually designate a combination of a rural church and a graveyard, situated at some distant place.
Dormition Church, Kondopoga; K. Kinerma; Kizhi Pogost This page was last edited on 9 July 2023, at 18:09 (UTC). Text ...