Eastern part of the indoor premises of a church, separated with a wall or iconostasis

A fixed square table in the middle of altar, covered with tissues with symbols of religion on them; it is the place for the New Testament with altar crosses on the sides and for the tabernacle

External terrace or gallery frequently open, contouring a building on the level of ground floor in churches, refectories and palaces

The apse is the semicircular or polygonal termination to the choir or aisles of a church

Decorative element of a wall - band of blind arcades, laying occasionally on pilasters

Semicircular or ogee (having an ogived top in the middle of an arch) end of a wall of a church building; repeats the contour of the vault that is behind

A cover of church roofs, repeating semicircular contours of arched gables

Lower part of entablature, its base, resting usually on capital or directly on wall.

In Ancient Russian cathedrals a compositional arrangement of church itself (quadrangle), refectory and steeple in axial alignment

Fencing of stair, balcony, terrace consisting of a row of stubby figured pillars (balusters)

Foot, lower bearing member of a column, staff or pier, wider than its shaft

An ornamental motif, a pattern of beads separated by disks of the same diameter

A construction over a church or standing near it in the form of wall with openings for hanging bells

Oriel in a wall, repeating the size and contour of a window; sometimes a folding casement is being imitated with the means of painting

A decorative sunken geometrical panel in a ceiling, vault, arch

The head or crowning feature of a column or pilaster

A decoration in a shape of a shield or a semideployed scroll, containing blazon, emblem, inscription

A top open gallery, balcony inside of a church as well as in a great hall

A certain assemblage of portative and portate parts of a load-bearing construction, their structure and artistic treatment. Portative element – a column, consisting of capital, shaft and foundation. Portate horizontal parts form the entablature, consisting of an architrave (lower part), frieze (middle part) and cornice (top offset part). Doric order – one of the main architectural orders, characterized by the column narrowing upwards with cannelures without foundations and by capital in the shape of a drum. It is a key element of monumental arrangement of classical architecture. Ionic order – one of the main architectural orders, has a slender column with foundation and shaft trenched with cannelures. Its differential characteristic is a capital in the shape of a drum with two volutes. The friso is often covered with a relief. Corinthian order – is the finest order characterized by elegant columns with cannelures and foundations, crowned with a splendid capital made of ornamental leaves and small volutes. Tuscan order – simplified version of the Doric order. Has a column without cannelures and a plain friso

Decorative arched gables, set on walls, vaults and aroung drums of church buildings, having semicircular or ogee contours. frequently corbel arches are arranged in tiers

A horizontal offset on the wall, supporting the roof of a building and protecting the wall from a running-off water; also the topmost element of the entablature in architectural orders

Decor of a rooftop shaped as a broken pediment or cast railings

External decorative perfection on the top of drums of domed churches

a) Assembly of elements and methods in architecture that contribute to its message and artistic content representation<br />и) system of building embellishment (facade, interior)

Construction of covering (or covering of a building or of a construction itself) having a form close to semisphere. the dome structures let cover vast spaces without any additional intermediate support

Crowning member of a building, cylinder or polygonal wall beneath a dome, often pierced with windows

A volume with two rows of windows not separated by inter-floor covering

Ornament of an archway, usually made of a carved stone overhung and fixed in a laying with an iron pin. located on gates, perrons or window embrasures<br />

Top of quadrangle, each side of which has two slopes of the roof

High horizontal part of an order composition usually supported by columns or piers. devided from the bottom upwards into architrave, frieze and cornice

A decorative stucco molding in the form of serrated or wavy pattern, swags

A top, an onion dome; a fretwork (a figured finial)

Architectural decor in a form of urn

Shallow vertical grooves on the shaft of a column or pier

a) The middle section of an entablature;<br />b) a decorative composition (image or ornament)in form of a horizontal band on the top of a wall

An ending (usually triangle) of a facade of a building, portico, colonnade, limited at both sides by two slopes and a tabling at the base. a decorative fronton - gablet - can be seen on doors and windows of a building. a broken fronton has interrupted slopes for ornamental purposes

A gable topside of a wall, going without an offset to its main surface

Lower floor of a church or of a house, usually having a service and housekeeping function

A curved vault close to hemisphere, smoothly going into a peack on the top, reminding by its contour a helmet

A wall, composed of several tiers of icons, set on timber strip; separates the nave from the sanctuary in a church

An Ancient Russian decorative and constructive element in the form of a solid short pier with a smooth widening a bit above its base

decorative setting of a window or a door opening. usually consists of a fronton, two vertical moldings (uprights or semi-columns) and an apron. frequently lining was decorated with a carving

An aperture of a window in a garret or dome roof. lucarnes that have a decorative value are being frequently ornamented with architraves

Decorative detail belonging to the history of Russian architecture of XIII-XVII centuries, a knop in columnsб piers, window and door architraves, by shape looking like a melon

Entrance annex to a church building

An octagonal (eight-sided) plan of a building or of its part frequently placed on quadrangle and pierced with windows

In the form of semicircle or semioval with a cusp above the centre of the arch

Having a cusp at the intersection of two symmetrical arcs

Form of a cover of a cupola that reminds by its contour an onion

A tripartite window with a central arched section sometimes divided by decorative uprights. borrowed from constructions of Italian architect of XVI century A. Palladio

A decorative rectangular frame or cutting on the surface of a wall or a pier

A low guarding wall at the edge of a roof, balcony, perron, riverwalk, bridge

A space in front of an entrance to the church

Construction in shape of a high quadrangular or multifaceted pyramid

The plan of a church or of another building in the form of a quadrangle with semicircular corbels at each side

A plain vertical rectangular-sectioned offset on a wall or upright. pilaster has the same parts (shaft, capital, foundation) and proportions as a column; it serves to segment a wall

A flat vertical offset in a wall of the building in the form of a pilaster without a capital

Coverage of a church dome with square shells having a tuffet in the middle of each square

Decorative turrets

A sort of ceramic veneer; ceramic plate made of burned clay with a drawing on it, looking from its back like an open box in order to be fixed in a laying

A decorated entrance of a building. perspective portal - casing of an entrance in the form of a row of set-backs going into the wall

A colonnade, that bears a covering, standing from a wall usually at the entrance. usually ends with a fronton

A settlement outside of the walls of central city fortification (Kremlin)

An architectural style in XVIII–XIX centuries that revives architectural forms and ornaments, as well as constructive features of the West-European Gothic<br />

Solid uprights, giving support to inter-floor covering, either flanking the entrance or the accessway

A building quadrangle (sometimes square) in plan. in composition of lots of steepled and tier churches goes together with an octagonal structure. double lighted quadrangle has two rows of windows not separated by inter-floor covering

a) In a monastery - a general dining hall with a church; Russian refectories of XVI-XVII centuries have the form of big halls with open terraces and stairs;<br />b) western annex to a church

Appeared in X–XIII centuries in West-European countries. characteristic features: solid walls, rare and narrow apertures of windows, high tours, that became one of the key elements of the architectural composition, decent decoration in the form of arcaded frieze

A small facetted volume finishing the building with a considerable surface of fenestration

Circular building with a dome

a) Relief setting or facing of a building with rustic - a rock-face stone;<br />b) finish of a wall surface that reminds a setting of massive stones or being of the form of horizontal stripes of an even height embossing over the background

A column that cantilevers over the edge of a wall to the half of its diameter

A decoration in imitation of shell (usually a fan-shaped filling of an arched gable or of a semicircular top of an exedra)

A small pillarless extension on the side of north or south front of a church, having an additional altar for church service

A suburb settlement along the road leading to a cityб behind the city wall

Embrasures in a tented roof of a steeple

A lower, usually somewhat projecting part of an outside wall of a building, construction, monument, resting on a foundation

In buildings, stairs is a term applied to a complete flight of steps between floors. A stair flight is a run of stairs or steps between landings.

A construction by a church designed for hanging the bells, sometimes in several tiers <br />

A plot of land that differs from surroundings by any natural characteristics (for ex. a swamp, a forrest in the middle of a field)

Stepped foundation of an architectural construction or sculpture monument

Roof contour in the form of three arcs, the medium one rests on the ends of the lateral arcs, that repeat each other in an inversed manner

Horizontal articulation of facade, usually relevant to a storey, and also a row of corbel arches in a church building

A spatial construction, inter-floor covering or covering of a construction in the form of a convex convoluted surface:<br />a) cylindrical - forms a circle when crosscut;<br />b) crossing-square - formed by crossing of two cylindrical vaults;<br />c) cloistered - formed by the extension of walls leaned according to a required curve;<br />d) dome - represents an absolute hemisphere <br />

A spiral, scroll-like ornament

Decorative metal rosace with a stellar edge