Thursday, December 23, 2021

All Saints at Bellis


The gate is open...


...to All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church.


The church is just on the outskirts of town.


And adjacent to the church is a prominent bell tower beside a stand of aspens.


For a small country church is has a vast array of window shapes and sizes: tall and narrow below the dome, tiny and square on the outer transepts, pointed-arch on the transept angles, wide rectangles on the apse and a rounded arch above the front doors.  And best of all...they compliment each other. 


The original church marker is almost lost in the lilac bushes.


A picturesque setting.

Photographed at Bellis, Alberta on September 18, 2021.

2 comments:

  1. Very picturesque indeed! Thank you for pointing out the various window designs because I doubt I would have noticed otherwise.

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