The mural covered entrance of Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox 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: 5504px × 8256px
Location: Nikolaevsk, Alaska, USA
Photo credit: © Richard Ellis / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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