Holy Places

Nonnberg Abbey Europe · Austria · Salzburg

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Notre Dame Cathedral Europe · France · Grenoble

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Notre Dame de Lourdes Roman Catholic Church Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

Before the 1917 Russian Revolution, approximately 3,700 French Catholics lived in St. Petersburg. As a rule, they prayed in St. Catherine's Church in Nevsky Avenue. As far back as the 1860s, the French Embassy intended to build a church for its compatriots. At the same time, architect Nicholas Benois designed a Gothic building. However, only as lat...

Notre Dame de Paris Europe · France · Paris

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Notre-Dame de Fourviere Basilica Europe · France · Lyon

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Novgorod Kremlin, Cathedral of St. Sophie Russia · Veliky Novgorod

Chronicles of the 16th and 17th centuries mention a building that was constructed in 989, soon after the Christianization. The thirteen-dome church was made completely of oak and dedicated to St. Sophia. The church stood on the Volkhov River at the end of Yepiskopskaya Street, where the epic hero Sadko built the Church of SS. Boris and Gleb in 1167...

Novgorod Kremlin, Church of St. Andrew Stratelates Russia · Veliky Novgorod

The Church of St. Andrew Stratelates has a complex construction history. Originally, from 1167 to 1173, there was the Church of SS. Boris and Gleb, a grand church with four columns, three apses, a narthex, and a stair tower. The Church, which was built in the big prince's temples of the early 12th century sort, was ordered by a citizen of Novgorod,...

Novgorod Kremlin, Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God Russia · Veliky Novgorod

The Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God is situated in the western part of the Kremlin, right against the eastern facade of the Kremlin wall and the Intercession Tower. It was first mentioned in the 1305 chronicle when a posadnik (eng.: mayor) Semyon Klimovich built a stone church upon the gates of Prusskaya Street (i.e. it was a gat...

Novodevichy Convent Russia · Moscow

The Novodevichy Convent is situated in the south-western part of Moscow, at a curve of the Moskva River. The ensemble is a prominent architectural monument of the 16th and 17th centuries. The most notable building of the ensemble is a cathedral dedicated to the icon Our Lady of Smolensk, which was built at the same time as the Convent itself. Th...

Novospassky Monastery, New Monastery of the Saviour Russia · Moscow

The New Monastery of the Saviour (Novospassky Monastery) is situated in the south-eastern part of the city, on the left high bank of the Moskva River, approximately five versts (5.3 km or 3.3 miles) away form the Kremlin. The Monastery served as a fortress and protected Moscow against invasions of the Ploles, Lithuanians, and Tatars. The Mona...