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8:20am November 24, 2014

faustinepau:

The awesome 22 dome church had all its base removed for restoration and replaced by piles making it looking as an enormous rocket at launch time just suspended in the air!!! In the 18th century, two major churches and a bell tower were built on the island, which are now known as Kizhi Pogost; The first mentioning of churches on the island is dated to 1563; This document describes two domed wooden churches with a bell tower standing in the southern part of the island (on the site of the present Kizhi Pogost), and mentions their earlier description of 1496; A more detailed description was documented in 1628: In particular, contrary to the later, domed churches of the pogost, the first ones had pyramidal roofs; Those churches were burned by a fire caused by lightning in the end of 17th century; Kizhi churches were built on stones, without a deep foundation; Their major basic structural unit is a round log of Scotts pine (Pinus sylvestris) about 30 cm in diameter and 3 to 5 meters long.

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