Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Moscow, Russia

Here's the signature element of Moscow's cultural landscape, St. Basil's Cathedral in Red Square.  The onion-shaped domes demand that your gaze rise to the sky and that your spirit contemplate the almighty.  And they do it better than almost any other church in the world:  too bad St. Basil's has been secularized since the 1920s.  [2000]

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