STONE TENT-ROOFED ARCHITECTURE OF XVI-XVII CENTURIES

Abstract

The paper describes the construction of tentroofed churches in Moscow region in the period of renovation of architectural techniques of church building in the16th-17th centuries. Moscow period of church building is considered to be the stage of creating the best of Russian tent-roofed temple architecture of the period, the reforms of Orthodox Christianity. The author offers the analysis of the architectural solution of architecture on the example of the tent-roofed churches in Kolomenskoye, Ostrov, Besedy and Putinki. The constructive and decorative solution of the tent-roofed churches is considered as a strict composition of the architectural design and rich decoration of external decoration. The author also draws attention to the complexity of the exact dating of the construction of the 16th-17th centuries’ tent-shaped churches architecture.