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Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye

Russian Federation
Date of Inscription: 1994
Criteria: (ii)
Moscow, the South District
N55 39 20 E37 40 26
Ref: 634rev

Brief Description

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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