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Hrubieszów – Orthodox Church


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The only Church in Poland with 13 domes.

This is a typical religious building from the second half of the nineteenth century, built at the request of the Russian government in the Russian-Byzantine style, after the suppression of the January Uprising. Built on a cruciform plan, with octagonal bell tower, semicircular chancel and two lateral wings. It is topped with typical thirteen onion domes, one of the bell-tower, five conventional arrangement of the central part of the nave, three on each wing and one on the chancel. Across the Europe, only two churches have 13 domes (the second can be seen in Finland).

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B. Prusa street 3/12
22-500 Hrubieszów
Provinsen: LUBELSKIE
Lengde- og breddegrad: 50.8053,23.8887