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
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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