"Wet Elijah the Prophet" Photo

Photographer’s Note

Псков, церковь Ильи Мокрого, 1677 год.
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Another Pskovian church with a funny name. It's a Church of Wet Elijah the Prophet. Why is he wet? Because the full name, given to the church in year 1677, when it was constructed, is "Church of Elijah the Prophet on the Wet Mellow". Later name was shortened and Elijah suddenly became wet.
Well, it's the story of this church.

ChrisJ, dareco, Buin, pablominto, MLINES has marked this note useful

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mikolaj_kawa (29406) 2008-03-18 7:06

Hello Uhu! Another interesting orthodox church. Good POV. Nice light. Very nice capture. Good info. Well done!

smartcat (835) 2008-03-18 7:18

Õîðîøàÿ ôîòêà.

Òîëüêî ÿ íå ïîíÿë - Íèêîëû ìîêðîãî èëè Èëüè ìîêðîãî?

ChrisJ (69588) 2008-03-18 7:38

Hi Uhu

This could easily be in Irkutsk, Siberia. Fantastic colour, with good sharpness, framing & pov. Well done!

dareco (17024) 2008-03-18 7:41

Very pretty and another to add to my theme:) I like this pov. TFS

Buin (36932) 2008-03-18 8:13

Hallo from Germany!
Another beautiful building! It seems that your supply of wonderful churches will never end - and it seems that you never will catch a blue sky ;-)) Thanks for the funny note!Greetings with some snow-flakes!
Frank

pablominto (40020) 2008-03-22 9:28

Hello Uhu,
Sometimes I'm quite fascinated by the use of colours in Russian churches!
This is a good point of view to show both towers well, fine detail in the structure nicely framed by leaves...
Greetings,
Pablo -

MLINES (10842) 2008-03-22 15:55

Hi Uhu, You have a lot of beautiful Russian buildings such as this church in your gallery. The story you write about it gives it a lot of meaning. Good POV showing the car seems to make the church look even older. Good work. Murray.