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Transfiguration Cathedral (Belozersk) Спасо-Преображенский Cобо́р Spaso-Preobrazhensky Sobor
Religion
Affiliation	State Russian Museum Russian Orthodox
Status	Museum
Location
Location	Belozersk, Russia
Architecture
Completed	1668

Transfiguration Cathedral is Russian Orthodox church located inside the earthen rampart of the Belozersk' Kremlin in Vologda region. It is a three-apse four-pillar temple with five onion-like domes, and is the dominant building of Kremlin.

Its construction had started in 1668 and was fully completed only by the end of the 1670s. The architecture of the temple was designed in archaic forms as it was typical for the second half of the XVII-th century. However, the facades' decoration was developed in the style typical for more early period – those of local architecture of the XVI-th century. Currently the Transfiguration Cathedral functions as a museum and is managed by the Belozersky Local Museum. The museum is open to the public from May to October.

An object of cultural heritage of Russia of federal significance.

References

1. Белозерский областной краеведческий музей (Belozersk Local Museum) (in Russian). Белозерский областной краеведческий музей (Belozersk Local Museum's official site). Retrieved November 21, 2013.
2. "Спасо-Преображенский собор // Памятники архитектуры (Transfiguration Cathedral)" (in Russian). Белозерский областной краеведческий музей (Belozersk Local Museum's official site). Retrieved 2022-02-11.

External links

Media related to Church of the Transfiguration (Belozersk) at Wikimedia Commons

• Dimensional drawings, photographs of fragments. Historical photographs. The state of temple for the period 2010–2011. Building view after the building view of 2012. Dimensional plans (in Russian).
• Design proposals Facades of the temple. Coloring options (in Russian).
• Transfiguration Cathedral (in Russian) // web site ""Соборы.ру"" ("Cathedrals.ru")
• Transfiguration Cathedral (Belozersk) (in Russian) // web site Russian temples
• Transfiguration Cathedral (Belozersk) - Belozersk Local Museum's official site (in Russian)
• spherical panoramas on the site Kremlin of Belozersk (in Russian)

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1. "Научно-проектная документации по сохранению объекта культурного наследия федерального значения "Спасо-Преображенский собор", ч. 1 // ООО "НРПМ" Вологда" (in Russian). nrpm35.ru. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
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