Solovki Monastery News Today

The people of Transylvania in the Middle Ages came up with a way to safeguard both their churches and their citizens, using Transylvanian fortified churches.

Why do Russian churches have onion-shaped domes? Legion Media Russian church architecture is very diverse, and the look of Orthodox churches has changed over the centuries. However, their domes serve as an indication of the period and the region to which a church belongs, as well as to whom or what it was dedicated. Early Christian basilicas and ancient Roman temples often had one huge dome in the shape of a hemisphere. Russian churches, however, could be crowned with a various...