Yerevan Central Post Office, Façade Detail
Lovely ornate stonecarving on the upper façade of the old Central Post Office building in Yerevan. There is a Soviet star here as well as a masonic square and compasses, bizarrely as freemasonry was suppressed entirely in the USSR. Perhaps we see an operative mason proud of his work and wishing he were part of the speculative fraternity his profession gave birth to!
The former Central Post Office building is the most modern of the monumental Soviet-era buildings which makes up Republic Square, the central square of Armenia's capital Yerevan. It was built from 1956-8 in a very ornate variant of the grandiose Stalinist architecture style.
Yerevan Central Post Office, Façade Detail
Lovely ornate stonecarving on the upper façade of the old Central Post Office building in Yerevan. There is a Soviet star here as well as a masonic square and compasses, bizarrely as freemasonry was suppressed entirely in the USSR. Perhaps we see an operative mason proud of his work and wishing he were part of the speculative fraternity his profession gave birth to!
The former Central Post Office building is the most modern of the monumental Soviet-era buildings which makes up Republic Square, the central square of Armenia's capital Yerevan. It was built from 1956-8 in a very ornate variant of the grandiose Stalinist architecture style.