The mountain Little Church is a photograph by Zina Stromberg which was uploaded on October 14th, 2013.
The mountain Little Church
Mountain is like in a Russian church with a rounded dome. There is an Orthodox cross at the top. Altai.Russia.... more
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The mountain Little Church
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Zina Stromberg
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Photograph - Photographs
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Mountain is like in a Russian church with a rounded dome. There is an Orthodox cross at the top. Altai.Russia.
In the late 18 th century in the foothills of Altai became a Russian immigrants. According to legend, one of the first settlers - Taras - has built on a mountain river Belokurikha mill and the house where he lived with his wife. A long time, they had no children. Then one of the local old residents, advised to Taras that his wife swim in the lake, and on the night of the new moon has go on the mountain «Little church», put the ribbon at the sacred tree and prayed to the Creator, to gave a child. The wife of Taras make so. A after some time she bore a son.
The happy father built on the mountain Kacha (so called this mountain a local residents), a chapel with a cross. A local residents not longer go on the mountain, and soon, and most have left these places. A mountain with the chapel became known as «Little church».
The best known natural monument in the vicinity of Belokuriha - Gore «Little Church».
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October 14th, 2013
