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St. Nicholas Church with the original “twisted” domes
1 Comment · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Photos, Religion, Travel
One of the main attractions of Chernivtsi city is St. Nicholas Church with the original “twisted” domes built in 1939. The architecture of the church reproduces the Romanian national style neorominesk. The prototype of the original design was the architecture of the church in Curtea de Arges.
The church is also called “Drunk church” because of its “twisted” domes, about which there are numerous legends. Address: Chernivtsi, Russkaya Str., 35. The photos were captured by av_otus.
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Serg · January 11, 2012 at 2:45 pm
This St. Nicholas Church is only a replica. If you want to see the original, it is in Romania and is called The Cathedral of Curtea de Argeș (early 16th century). As an aside, Romanian cathedral was built by dynasty from which Vlad III – the Impaler (also known as Dracula) belonged.