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St Vartan Armenian Cathedral, New York City
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620 Second Ave (2nd Avenue @ E. 34th Street), Manhattan, New York City, New York, US
Armenian Orthodox Cathedral
Steinman, Cain & White – Architects (Principal architect was Walker Cain)
Edward Utudjian – Design Consultant
1967 – Gullabi Gulbenkian Cultural Center dedicated
28 April 1968 – Cathedral Consecrated
Near Bogolyubovo, Suzdal Raion, Vladimir Oblast, Russia
The church is constructed of limestone.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Intercession_on_the_Nerl
St Magnus Cathedral is built using two different stones: the red standstone from the north of Kirkwall and the yellow sandstone from Eday in Orkney.
Sandstone is extremely soft and the weathering effects of Orcadian wind and rain over the course of time have helped to create unusual sculptured effects as seen in these columns here
St. Wenceslaus's (as in "Good King") Catholic Church in New Prague, Minnesota, built in 1907 for a congregation of Czechs that had been formed in 1856.
Notre Dame du Fort is a massive church but this was the first time I'd noticed the statue. Odd as it's right by the Lady Chapel!
Village Krasnoye, Staritsa Raion, Tver Oblast
Manor owner Mark Fyodorovich Poltoratsky built this neo-gothic church. The church is essentially a copy of the 1780 Chesme Church near Saint Petersburg. The Krasnoye church was closed, gutted, and repurposed in the 1930s. Restoration started in 1979. Returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1999 (uncertain).
The ruins of the Poltoratsky manor house and overgrown park are nearby.
Built in 1872, using a friable green stone known as serpentine. It's equally stunning inside. Thirty years before it was built, Francis Scott Key died in a house on this site. It's one of the main attractions of Mount Vernon Place, one of the most urbane and elegant public squares in any American city. It was also the church in which I was married.
Village Yaropolets, Volokolamsk Raion, Moscow Oblast
Closed and repurposed in 1962. Returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992.
The Archangel Michael weighs the souls of the dead with the Virgin Mary - medieval (15th century) wall painting at Kempley Church.
Village Tarkhovo, Klin Raion, Moscow Oblast
Village Tarkhovo is the oldest settlement of Orthodox Christians in the Moscow Oblast.
The first wooden church and the village were burned by Polish-Lithuanian troops during the Time of Troubles (1608-1612). The present stone Ascension Church was built in 1805.
During WW II, the German army held Russian prisoners of war in the church.
The church was closed and repurposed in 1959. The church was returned to the Russian Orthodox church in 1993.