Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye World Heritage Site

Official name

Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye | UNESCO

Country

Russia | Map

Continent

Europe

Location

Moscow, the South District
55.6555° Lat, 37.6738° Lon | Map

Code

634

Time Zone

Europe/Moscow (MSK, +0300)

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Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 1994. The Church of the Ascension was built in 1532 on the imperial estate of Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, to celebrate the birth of the prince who was to become Tsar Ivan IV ('the Terrible'). One of the earliest examples of a traditional wooden tent-roofed church on a stone and brick substructure, it had a great influence on the development of Russian ecclesiastical architecture.