Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye

Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye skrevs in på UNESCO:s världsarvslista 1994 som kulturarv i Russian Federation. Platsen hör till regionen Europe and North America.

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UNESCOThe 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.