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Onion Domes: variety and colour | ||
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The Onion Domes of the Russian Orthodox Church are the crowning architectural feature of churches, monasteries & convents. They are varied in form & rich in symbolism with regard to both number & colour. Some are amazingly inventive & colourful. Carole-Anne Fooks |
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![]() Contrasting domes on the Church of Resurrection of Christ, also known as the Church of the Saviour on the Spilled Blood, Saint Petersburg. Erected between 1883 & 1907, on the spot where Czar Alexander II was mortally wounded. | ||
