среда, 4 сентября 2013 г.

Chapel of the Three Saints


Postcard ID: UA-714651
Country: Ukraine

Chapel of the Three Saints at the beginning served as a temple with 1578 on 1591, has not yet been built Church of the Assumption . Then the church into a chapel. The building was designed by architect Andrew Podlesnaya to order the same Constantine Kornyakta .

Columns inside the no - instead, a complicated system of arches and sails. The top of the pilasters is decorated with heads of angels. The portal is decorated with reliefs of female heads of profile . The door itself is forged, decorated with roses.

After the fire, the chapel was rebuilt 1671r by means of Alexei Balaban . Unfortunately iconostasis which was made by Alexander Lyanitskim , to this day not lived . In 1846, 1847rr .chapel has been restored , but then was broken wall and connected it to the church.

The interior of the chapel has a rich decoration: painting and stucco work , a perfect combination of folk traditions and Renaissance style .The white walls emphasize the contrast with stucco , which is simulating a mosaic background, which in turn covers the inner surface of the dome.

Traditiomally, here are  the postcrossing stamps:



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