Staircase "Albacha"

Ecclesiastical ladder "Albacha" in Russia was such a lot, now preserved only in the distant one Michurinsk Ural her more than a hundred years, it serves to indicate the solar time, the hours of prayer. Every day when the staircase shadow, specify the path of the Church of the townspeople fastened ropes and turned staircase to the entrance of the temple, which was located on the upper level where it is attached and The priest struck a bell to summon villagers to pray the Mother of God











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