Trinity Cathedral

This east view of the Trinity Cathedral in Solikamsk was taken in 1999 by Dr. William Brumfield, American photographer and historian of Russian structure, as a part of the "Meeting of Frontiers" mission on the Library of Congress. Founded around 1430 at the center reaches of the Kama River, Solikamsk is many of the oldest Russian settlements in the Ural Mountains. Its wealth became based on salt and different minerals. The Trinity Cathedral, constructed of brick in 1684-97 because the town's essential church, is an first-rate example of the noticeably-ornamented, structurally-difficult designs of past due 17th-century Russian structure.

The structure's sculpted form is more advantageous by way of the wealthy patterned decoration of its whitewashed facades, as well as through the 5 cupolas on slim drums that relaxation on a brick platform and venture above the roof. Further decorative emphasis is supplied through porches and covered steps that lead upward to the portals on the north, west, and south facades. On the east facet, the principle apse is flanked on the south and north by two additional chapels, further ornamented and devoted to St. Nicholas and St. John the Baptist, respectively. The cathedral changed into closed in 1929 and became a neighborhood history museum, a function that it serves to the current.