Wooden church without nails

in #photography7 years ago

Wooden Nine-Dome Holy Trinity Cathedral (1778)


After liquidation by Empress Catherine II Zaporizhzhya Sich Cossacks began to settle on banks of Samara river and in one of Cossack capitals - Novoselitsa built a majestic Nine-Dome Holy Trinity Cathedral without a single nail on means of Cossacks in 1778 in honor of victory of Cossacks in Russian - Turkish war. (C) Pavel Korsun


It is located in the city of Novomoskovsk, Dnepropetrovsk region, Ukraine.

Photo - september 2005. Camera - Canon a95.

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