Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye, Russia
Church of the Ascension is a Russian Orthodox Church located in the national park Kolomenskoye several miles to the south-east of Moscow downtown, Russia. The church was built by Vasily III in 1532 to commemorate the birth of an heir to the throne, the future Ivan the Terrible. It was probably built by an Italian architect Petrok Maly as the first stone church of tent-like variety and formed a basis for future harmonious combination of Russian and Western European architecture. Church of the Ascension was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1994.
The church was constructed in the form of a gigantic pillar without supporting columns or piers rising 62 meters (204 feet) high. It was rebuilt and reconstructed several times but its main characteristics remained unchanged.
