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Why Moscow's minarets on the Kremlin are differnt shaps and dif't colors/? Do the colors signify something? |
Travel Info Why Moscow's minarets on the Kremlin are differnt shaps and dif't colors/? Do the colors signify something? Travel Tips Are you crazy? They're not minarets. If everyone was going by your logic then Russia would be the stronghold of Islam. Thankfully that is not the case. If you meant St. Basil's Cathedral, then each dome was for a certain saint, but I'm pretty sure the colors don't mean anything. If you were talking about the Kremlin itself (which is NOT the building with the domes), then each tower has it's own history which you can read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kremlin_tow... Once again, they are NOT minarets. Others Those are not minarets, it is a church. That's a good point; they're not minarets, but I've heard them called "Onion Domes." In Russian, 谢褍泻芯胁懈褔薪邪褟 谐谢邪胁邪. They're designed to shed off the snow in winter so the roofs don't collapse because of the weight. When referring to a top of any church, one should used the word 'dome'...in case of Russian churches/cathedrals, they are designed with "onion domes". It is very particular of Russian architecture, which, was indeed, influenced by Islamic architecture. Minarets (please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/minaret)... are architectural features of mosques, not churchers. More about St.Basil's Cathedral: "The initial concept was to build a cluster of chapels, one dedicated to each of the saints on whose feast day the tsar had won a battle, but the construction of a single central tower unifies these spaces into a single cathedral. Legend says that Ivan had the architect, Postnik Yakovlev, blinded to prevent him from building a more magnificent building for anyone else. It has been recently speculated that certain elements of Timurid monuments in Samarkand or of Kazan Qolsharif mosque were pictured in this cathedral, because this mosque was the main symbol of Khanate of Kazan. The original look of the mosque is unknown, however." Dasha from Russia Minarets))It`s not Turkey or US http://www.nemtyrev.narod.ru |
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