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Saint George Cathedral

location_on Yuryev Polsky, Vladimir Oblast, Russia
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About Saint George Cathedral

Saint George Cathedral in Yuryev-Polsky is one of 12 enduring white-stone houses of worship which were worked in Vladimir-Suzdal Principality in the northeastern Rus before the Mongol attack. Developed somewhere in the range of 1230 and 1234, the house of God was additionally the remainder of these places of worship to be assembled, finished only 3 years previously the intrusion. Not at all like the vast majority of the other pre-Mongol Vladimir-Suzdal houses of worship, the St. George Cathedral was not assigned as the World Heritage site.

The house of God was assigned by the Russian government as a design landmark of administrative noteworthiness. The house of God is and was initially constructed unevenly. Its primary volume is a square upheld by four sections in the center. The segments are square in cross-segment. The eastern side is an apse. The stone carvings of the St. George Cathedral join human and creature frames, executed as reliefs, with botanical elaborate thought processes, completed in the fine cutting procedures.

This blend has been known in frescoes of Saint Boris and Saint Gleb Church in Kideksha and of the Nativity Cathedral in Suzdal, notwithstanding, for the model, the mix is one of a kind for Rus. It is felt that the stone carvings were finished by two gatherings of craftsmen. One, comprising of 12 specialists, was doing the reliefs, though another gathering of 18-24 was dealing with the flower decorations.

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