HERITAGE RECORD · 634

Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye

科罗缅斯克的耶稣升天教堂

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

The Church of the Ascension was built in 1532 on the imperial estate of Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, to celebrate the birth of the prince who was to become Tsar Ivan IV ('the Terrible'). One of the earliest examples of a traditional wooden tent-roofed church on a stone and brick substructure, it had a great influence on the development of Russian ecclesiastical architecture.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ220951 ↗

Inception1528

Administrative areaQ1963453

Named afterQ51638

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(ii)An important interchange of human values in architecture, technology, arts, town planning or landscape design.

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