The domes, covered with tin, were uniformly gilded, creating an overall bright but fairly traditional combination of white, red and golden colors.

On 24 February 1930, the economic department of the OGPU sent a letter to the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee asking to remove the golden domes of the Christ the Savior Cathedral.

Yellow on the top represents golden domes ( Kupola ) of Christian churches and blue – Dniper river.

On Mikhail's behest, the adjoining Golden Tsaritsa's Chamber constructed back in the 1560s for Ivan IV's wife, was surmounted with 11 golden domes of the Upper Saviour Cathedral.

Two highly venerated pre-Mongol churches that have been rebuilt — the Assumption Cathedral and the Cathedral of St. Demetrius in Vladimir — uniquely display golden helmet domes.

The most characteristic feature of the building is its nine golden domes, and roof with rich kokoshnik ornamentation in an ogive form.

In autumn the hills they are magnificently decorated with the golden domes of the hazelnut trees, columns of birch-trees, towering plane trees, and green thickets.

The golden oak doors that open into it from the building's exterior were intended to create a dramatic entrance into an equally dramatic, high-ceilinged space where domes 50 feet in the air are covered in buff-toned Guastavino tiles.

It was designed by Filipino architect Leandro V. Locsin, who utilized the architectural motif of golden domes and vaulted roofs to echo Brunei's Islamic and Malay influences.

It was built in 1753 and features three beautiful golden domes.

The colours that the Persians favoured where golden, white and turquoise patterns on a dark-blue background.

The colours that the Persians favoured where golden, white and turquoise patterns on a dark-blue background.

Scapulars and remaining mantle glossed golden green with bronze reflections ; wing coverts with dark turquoise green suffused with deep blue.

It ’ s also a golden opportunity to spend your higher secondary education days in an Island encircled with turquoise lagoons, marked by clean shady roads, filled with friendly and warm hearted people helping you out throughout ones studies.

The whole construction consists of a portal with a lofty Iwan decorated with mirrors, several courtyards, a golden cupola, two tile minarets, a portico, a sepulcher, and a mosque.

The entire structure is enclosed in a " golden rectangle " where the ratio of the width of the base to the height of the two large minarets is 1. 618.

What otherwise could `` the lawyer, doctor, minister, the men of science and letters '' do when told that they had `` become the cherubim and seraphim and the three archangels who stood before the golden throne of the merchant, and continually cried, ' Holy, holy, holy is the Almighty Dollar ' ``??

Thus, in an 1831 letter from Lucy Mack Smith to her brother, she discusses Moroni as the person who buried the plates, but does not identify him as the unnamed " holy angel " that gave Smith the means to translate the golden plates.

A golden reliquary which originally housed his skull and another one used for processions through Amalfi on holy days can also be seen.

In gratitude, Phrixus sacrificed the ram to Zeus and gave the king the golden fleece of the ram, which Aeëtes hung in a tree in the holy grove of Ares in his kingdom, guarded by a dragon that never slept.

Saint Kulasekhara Alvar prays to the Lord Srinivasa to grant him even the lowest birth in the holy Tirumala Hills — as a fish in the sacred Swami Pushkarini, or as a tree, or as anything on the golden hills of Lord Venkateswara ( emberumaan ponmalai mEl EdhEnum avEnE ).

Ardor ’ s return was required to be able to have the books ( the " golden fruits ") come out uncorrupted ( as has happened with all " holy " books ) so that everyone would know the " shorter road ".

No explicit mention is made of Communion as a requirement to receive the indulgence, nor does the word jubilee occur in the Bull — indeed the pope speaks rather of a celebration which is to occur every hundred years — but writers both Roman and foreign described this year as annus jubileus, and the name jubilee ( though others, such as the " holy year " or " the golden year " have been used as well ) has been applied to such celebrations ever since.

The Vishukkani consists of a ritual arrangement of auspicious articles like raw rice, fresh lemon, golden cucumber, betel leaves, arecanut, metal mirror, yellow flowers konna ( Cassia fistula ), and a holy text and coins, in a bell metal vessel called uruli in the puja room of the house.

Oral tradition in Rabbinic Judaism also speaks of a huge golden grape vine artifact outside of the holy site of the Temple in Jerusalem before its destruction by the Romans.

Not to speak of a supposed vision of Pope Clement VI as early as 1350, who is said to have been supernaturally admonished to " open the door ", there are several references to the " holy door " or the " golden gate " in connection with the Jubilee long before the year 1475.

One job of Iris was to fill a golden jug with holy water for Zeus, who made misbehaving gods take a most binding oath on this holy water.

During the drunken feast, Belshazzar uses the holy golden and silver vessels, from Solomon's Temple, to praise ' the gods of gold and silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone '.

Perceval is the earliest recorded account of what was to become the Quest for the Holy Grail but describes only " a " golden grail ( a serving dish ) in the central scene and does not call it " holy " but treats a lance, appearing at the same time, as equally significant.

They were described as “ shining as gold in the belly of Nut " ( Gr. Nuit ) and were indeed depicted as golden stars on the roofs of many tombs and temples.

Thracian artifacts include numerous tombs and golden treasures, while ancient Bulgars have left traces of their heritage in music and early architecture.

Goguryeo Silla tombs are most noted for the fabulous offerings that have been excavated such as delicate golden crowns and glassware and beads that probably made their way to Korea via the Silk Road.

A square-based chapel with a golden dome houses the tombs of its founder as well as of his children, King Sigismund II Augustus and Anna Jagiellon ( Jagiellonka ).

However, there have been cases in the past of artistic depictions representing living creatures such as the golden birds on the Mogadishan canopies, the ancient rock paintings in northern Somalia, and the plant decorations on religious tombs in southern Somalia, but these are considered rare.

Next to the pyramid were found the tombs of several royal women some of them were found undisturbed and still contained golden jewellery.

A square-based chapel with a golden dome houses the tombs of its founder king Sigismund, as well as king Sigismund Augustus of Poland and Anna Jagiellonka.

In an invention of Virgil ( Aeneid VI ), Daedalus flies to Cumae and founds his temple there, rather than in Sicily ; long afterwards Aeneas confronts the sculpted golden doors of the temple.

The Angora hamster, also known as the long-haired or teddy bear hamster, which is a type of the golden hamster is the second-largest hamster breed, measuring up to long.

As long as differences in wealth and status among families were minimal, the first coming together in groups was accompanied by a fleeting golden age of human flourishing.

Many Spanish proverbs have a long history of cultural diffusion ; there are proverbs, for example, that have their origin traced to Babylon and that have come down to us through Greece and Rome ; equivalents of the Spanish proverb “ En boca cerrada no entran moscas ” ( Silence is golden ) belong to the cultural tradition of many north-African countries as far as Ethiopia ; having gone through multiple languages and millennia, this proverb can be traced back to an ancient Babylonian proverb.

In Hamlet's Mill, co-authored with Hertha von Deschend, the authors find that the sampo or precession process was believed to grind out different world ages, from dark age to golden age and back again over the long precession cycle.

According to the in-game backstories, long ago, three golden goddesses descended from a distant nebula to the world of Hyrule and created order and life.

The golden citizens are trained in a rigorous 50-year long educational program to be benign oligarchs, the " philosopher-kings.

But the breathtaking beauty pervading his waltzes ... " Pastircek / Hirtenlied ", " Slovenia / Slovenija, odkod lepote tvoje ", " Veter nosi pesem mojo / The wind song ", " Čakala bom " (" I shall wait "), " European Waltz ", " Na svidenje " (" So long "), " On the Bridge ", and " Argentina ", to name just a golden few ... best characterize the profound nature of his impact.

They are variously described as having golden or gray eyes and with long, translucent or silver-gray hair.

In The Pilgrim of Hate he is described as having " a long, spare wide-browed face, with a fine scimitar of a nose and a subtle bow of a mouth and the fierce, fearless, golden eyes of a hawk.

Princess Peach has long, golden blonde hair ; large cat-like azure eyes ; a tall height ; an innocent figure ; and a rosy complexion.

An imposing mosque, 90 metres long by 78 metres wide, resembling the Great Mosque of Damascus, was raised at the foot of Mount Berenice next to a Byzantine church, to the south of the city, as the eighth century ushered in Tiberias's golden age, when the multicultural city may have been the most tolerant of the Middle East.

Apophis was a large golden snake known to be miles long.

The Edwardian period is sometimes imagined as a romantic golden age of long summer afternoons and garden parties, basking in a sun that never sets on the British Empire.

The type of pastry used is not defined, as long as it is golden in colour and will not crack during the cooking or cooling, although modern pasties almost always use a shortcrust pastry.

They are between 12 and 16 cm long, weigh 40 to 60 grams, and are uniformly covered in fairly short, very fine pale cream to white hair with an iridescent golden sheen.

In another dream, Hong dreamt of angels carrying him to heaven, where he met the elder-brother figure wearing in a black dragon robe with a long golden beard who gave him a sword and a magic seal, and told him to purge China of demons.

Born in Melbourne, the son of a church musician and a woman of long golden hair, he was educated at a technical college in that city, but left for England to pursue a career in writing.

Silky is so named because of her long, silky, golden hair.

Genetic analysis has shown that the Asian golden cat, along with the bay cat and the marbled cat, diverged from the other felids about 9. 4 million years ago, and that the Asian golden cat and bay cat differed as long as four million years ago, suggesting that the bay cat was a different species long before the isolation of Borneo.

Morphological and genetic analysis confirmed the close relationship with the Asian golden cat, and that the two species had been separated from a common ancestor for 4. 9 to 5. 3 million years, long before the geological separation of Borneo from mainland Asia.

It is a small, deciduous tree, growing tall and wide, and bears a pome fruit, which is bright golden yellow when mature, pear-shaped, long and broad.