USSR Commemorative Gold Coin

Series: Millennium of ancient architecture
St.Sophia Cathedral, Veliky Novgorod, XI cetnture

Par : 50 rubles

Release Date: 13.09.1988

Mint: Moscow Mint (MMD).

The Cathedral of St. Sophia (the Holy Wisdom of God) in the Kremlin (or Detinets) in Novgorod the Great is the cathedral church of the Archbishop of Novgorod and the mother church of the Novgorodian Eparchy. Novgorod's St. Sophia was the first Slavic church in which local divergences from Byzantine pattern were made so evident. With its austere walls, narrow windows, the church is redolent of Romanesque architecture of Western Europe, rather than of Greek churches built at that time.