Photo of the Day for May 4, 2014

Churches of Belarus (part LXVII):  Orthodox Church of the Birth of the Holy Mother of God (1718-1720), Dubjanjets 2013.  Цэрквы Беларусі (частка LXVII):  царква Нараджэньня Маці Божай (1718-1720 гг.), Дубянец 2013 год.

The Dubjanjets church is one of the most splendid examples of surviving 18th-century Polesian wooden churches.  Unfortunately the parish has substituted golden onion domes, alien to the architectural traditions of Polesia, for the harmonious original domes (in forlorn abandonment on the ground on the right).

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