New materials regarding research in the fields of architecture and urban construction are being presented. The authors also focus on the history of the creation of little-known buildings of interest, on the development of local architectural traditions, on new attributions, and introduce recently discovered archive materials. A number of papers are dedicated to the issues of architectural and urban planning development of historical towns and cities or study the formation of architectural ensembles. The edition also includes papers that are devoted to theoretical historical-architectural problems, to biographies of architects, or analyze artistic approaches and concepts.
Issue 59 (2013)
E. V. Khodakovski, E. A. Meliukh.
Transfiguration Church in Nimenga and 19th-century Wooden Church Architecture of the White Sea Region
The paper focuses on a little-known wooden construction of the second half of the 19th century – Transfiguration Church in the Village Nimenga on the Pomorski Shore of the White Sea. Studying the archive sources of the GAAO, the authors reconstruct the initial stages in the history of the Nimenga Church complex and analyze in detail the process of designing and building of the Transfiguration Church, which was consecrated in 1878-1881. From the architectural point of view the most interesting element is the cubic cover of the main volume, which is the last example in the case of the Nimenga Church and which marks the end of the local tradition involving the construction of cubic churches. The Nimenga Transfiguration Church is viewed within the broad context of the White Sea 19th-century wooden architecture, when intensive construction was conducted in the 1850s-1880s in the White Sea as well as in the Onega Regions.
Keywords
Wooden Architecture, Russian North, White Sea, 19th century church architecture.