Thanks, Igor and Attila! Russian style churches tend to be brightly colored. The iconic example, of course, is the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat, commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, in Red Square. If you will look at it, you will note that there are a lot of orange bricks used in the main part of the structure, and that under the onion domes there are octagonal structures not too dissimilar from the ones in the Manville church:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Basil%27s_Cathedral#mediaviewer/File:Moscow_July_2011-4a.jpg It is true that the bottom part of the church looks more like a protestant structure than a typical Orthodox building. This is a small congregation of very modest means. I suspect they purchase a license for a standard pre-designed church building and had it modified by a local architect to include the golden dome. BTW, that is real gold leaf up there. Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dan, > > That's a nice photo of an interesting architectual object. > > It is interesting that Don mentioned that the golden domes look like > retrofit. > I think the bottoms are in a style that is very different from traditional > Orthodoc Churches (or even of the Uniate churches,- but I know those much > less, so, I might be wrong here). There are a few features that contributes > to that feel. > The first one, is the orange-colored bricks. I don't think I've ever seen > such in any Orthodoc church. > Second, the square-trapezoid features that are just below the domes. > I think those clash with the domes becuase of their proportions. > Overall, everything but the golden domes looks very mcuh as a standard > US North-East building. > > As for the bells standing next to a church in Russia, - typically, as you > said, they are historical. But they aren't that frequent. I remember that at > least in one case, the bell either fell shortly after being raised, > or they couldn't raise it at all, so, they placed it on the ground. > > Now, as for the photo itself, while I was looking at the photo on my phone, > it seemed a bit weird to me how the (converging) columns looked: > they seemed to be converging in different ways, to the extent > that the photo seemed to be not leveled correctly. > I don't get the same impression on the large computer screen. > I think it is the combination of the perspective convergence, > and the fact that you were not exactly on the center of the building. > The curvature of the ground level is adding to the visual confusion. > > Cheers, > > Igor > > > P.S. For comparison, here is how a small modern Orthodocs church > (on Baikal shore, in the village Bolshoe Goloustnoe) looks like: > http://42graphy.org/galleries/2014-08-baikal/b-goloustnoe/_IR29957.html > http://42graphy.org/galleries/2014-08-baikal/b-goloustnoe/_IR29959.html > You can see the difference in the features I mentioned. > > > > > > > > On 9/29/2014 12:21 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >> >> The Carpatho-Russian Othodox Church of the Holy Ghost. (My paternal >> grandfather was one of the origianal founding members.) >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17867842 >> Comments are invited. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
