Glossary · S
Shatyor
Also called tent roof, tented roof, tent
The tent roof of Russian architecture: a tall octagonal pyramid of timber or masonry crowning a church or tower, as at the Church of the Ascension at Kolomenskoye (1532).
See also: Kokoshnik
Rules that use the word
The tented church. Instead of a dome, crown the church with a tall octagonal pyramid of masonry (the shatyor, or tent) set on an octagon over the square body, with kokoshniki at the transitions and a small cupola at the top.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Byzantium and the Early Church.
A feature of Russian architecture.
Nearby in the glossary
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