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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 14255, member: 44&quot;]&gt;I&#039;m getting a Ukrainian vibe from it.&lt;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ditto here. Eastern Europe feel to me. Believe there is a round rosette stained glass window over the front door. I known the steeples or whatever are not iconic &quot;onion&quot; shape like the typical Russian orthodox churches, but they are rounded like this &quot;First Ukrainian Church in Canada.&quot; Click the pic for an enlargement:</p><p><a href="http://www.infoukes.com/culture/architecture/first_church/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.infoukes.com/culture/architecture/first_church/" rel="nofollow">http://www.infoukes.com/culture/architecture/first_church/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and this Roman Catholic Ukrainian church, again Canada:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/hrb/mun/m014.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/hrb/mun/m014.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/hrb/mun/m014.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some old Russian Orthodox churches with fences around them:</p><p>This one built in the 1930s is on St. George Island off the west coast of Alaska in the Bering Sea - &quot;part of the Pribilof group of islands&quot;:</p><p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AGhi-kPBtlg/THU3Al8UEYI/AAAAAAAABBg/ewcoEhRabZs/s400/P1030356b.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AGhi-kPBtlg/THU3Al8UEYI/AAAAAAAABBg/ewcoEhRabZs/s400/P1030356b.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AGhi-kPBtlg/THU3Al8UEYI/AAAAAAAABBg/ewcoEhRabZs/s400/P1030356b.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This one is on the Kenai Peninsular of Alaska, picture taken c1900:</p><p><a href="https://redoubtreporter.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/churches-roc-ca-1900.jpg?w=300&amp;h=230" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://redoubtreporter.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/churches-roc-ca-1900.jpg?w=300&amp;h=230" rel="nofollow">https://redoubtreporter.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/churches-roc-ca-1900.jpg?w=300&amp;h=230</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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