Location Karachay-Cherkessia Number of domes 1 | Architectural style Byzantine architecture | |
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Address Unnamed Road,, im. Kosta Khetagurova, Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, 369220 Similar Senty Church, Belalakaya, Dombay, Dombay‑Ulgen, Special Astrophysical Observat | ||
Shoana Church (Russian: Шоанинский храм), also known as Khumara Church (Russian: Хумаринский храм), is an early 10th-century Alanian church sited on a cliff above the left bank of the Kuban River, 7 km upstream from Karachayevsk, Russia and 4 km downstream from the ruins of Skhimar, in the vicinity of Kosta Khetagurov Village. It is a typical Byzantine-style church, 12.9 meters high, with three naves, separated by four pillars. The building was first explored and depicted by Joseph Bernardazzi in 1829; a more scholarly description was given by Abraham Firkovich in 1848. Two medieval books from this church are now in the University of Göttingen.
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