Russia · Veliky Novgorod
The Church of St. Andrew Stratelates has a complex construction history. Originally, from 1167 to 1173, there was the Church of SS. Boris and Gleb, a grand church with four columns, three apses, a narthex, and a stair tower. The Church, which was built in the big prince's temples of the early 12th century sort, was ordered by a citizen of Novgorod,...
Russia · Veliky Novgorod
The Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God is situated in the western part of the Kremlin, right against the eastern facade of the Kremlin wall and the Intercession Tower.
It was first mentioned in the 1305 chronicle when a posadnik (eng.: mayor) Semyon Klimovich built a stone church upon the gates of Prusskaya Street (i.e. it was a gat...
Russia · Veliky Novgorod
Chronicles of the 16th and 17th centuries mention a building that was constructed in 989, soon after the Christianization. The thirteen-dome church was made completely of oak and dedicated to St. Sophia. The church stood on the Volkhov River at the end of Yepiskopskaya Street, where the epic hero Sadko built the Church of SS. Boris and Gleb in 1167...