Source: Russia Beyond the Headlines
July 29, 2019
American historian and architecture expert William Brumfield discovers a remarkable wooden church connected to the Christianization of Russia.
Bogoslov (near Rostov). Wooden Church of St. John the Divine on the Ishnya. South view. July 8, 2019. William Brumfield
The village of Bogoslov, on the western outskirts of Rostov-the-Great, is beautiful in itself, but it is renowned for the nearby wooden church of St. John the Divine. This remarkable monument was built in the late 17th century to commemorate a vision of St. John that appeared to St. Avraamy of Rostov centuries earlier. In 1911, the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky came to photograph the monument using his special color photographic process.
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