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onion dome

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onion dome
In Russian Orthodox church architecture, a bulbous dome which terminates in a point and serves as a roof structure over a cupola or tower.


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Sounds of chanting chimed in with the bells as I entered the cathedral, typically Russian with its onion domes.
The fabled beauty of the Kremlin's golden onion domes dusted with winter snow may be a thing of the past under a scheme by the Moscow mayor, reported by newspapers Thursday, to banish snow from the capital.
Last night Hills suggested that the income structure in Britain, sometimes described as an hourglass - dividing the prosperous skilled from declining manual work - might better be compared to the onion dome on a Russian Orthodox church.
 
 
 
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