The Russian Orthodox icon painted above the entrance of Saint Nicholas Church in Nikolaevsk, Alaska. The wooden church was built by Russian migrants of the Old Believers sect, who fled religious persecution in the 17th-century

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Size: 5409px × 8113px
Location: Nikolaevsk, Alaska, USA
Photo credit: © Richard Ellis / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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