Colorful Old Town of Kavala, Greece.

The pseudo-Gothic palace of the Lazarević manor in Veliko Srediste, Serbia, in contrast to the well-preserved main manor house, awaiting reconstruction.

Despite its strong ties with the Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Armenian Church never adapted the iconostasis. However, during the periods of particularly active contacts in the Modern Time, this tradition did penetrate into Armenian churches, although such iconostases were usually installed behind the altar, as in this church of the icon of the Theotokos of Seven Wounds in Gyumri, which created a unique "retablo".

This is how Russia is revived - the mansion of merchant Ermolaev in Guryevsk, now serving as a local history museum - a little more than ten years ago and now.

Window of the Saint Demetrius church in Stalpu, Romania, built in the very end of XVII century.

Just a detail of the majestic Baroque iconostasis in the Theotokos of Kazan church in Mozga, Russia.

It actually predates the church itself and was moved here in the XIX century, when the current stone building replaced an old wooden one, and was remodeled to better suit the new environment, with preservation of the original style.

Galleries of the inn, or, as it is called in the Balkans in the Turkish manner, khan of Hadja Nikola in the old town of Veliko Tarnovo in Bulgaria.

Unique in its preservation among similar buildings, the XIX century Bulgarian Revival monument now serves as a restaurant and an art gallery.

Rostov-on-Don is known not only for its rich architectural heritage, but also for its truly barbaric treatment of it - but in the imperial years, the city was so wealthy that its revenue houses can still compete with those in the capital.

Unfortunately, it is true for the most part in terms of scale - but the Shirman house was also lucky in terms of condition.

A restored Byzantine arch in Tyre, Lebanon, which pairs with an older Hadrian Arch which also adorns the city.

Now being restored through the efforts of the Macedonian Church, the temple of Matejča Monastery, built by Serbian Tsars - one of the biggest monastic catholicons in Northern Macedonia.

The monastery was beautifully preserved until 2001, when a terroristic attack on it was carried out by Albanian infidels.

Newly installed altar and preserved stucco at St Dimitri Church in the village of Kubenskoye, Russia. It was only in 2024 that the church held its first service in almost a century - the Communists turned it into a club. They did this forcibly - but today in many former Christian countries such changes occur almost as if naturally. Fortunately, as we can see, in some places trends have reversed.

The beautiful neo-Romanian castle - Villa Mirea nearby Campulung.

inside of the recently-restored basilical Byzantine church of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Koropi, Greece.

Reminiscent of medieval townhalls, the Northern Art-Nouveau building of Vyborg market, Russia.

Eclectic Holy Trinity church in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.

An early middle-Byzantine sculptured capital from Asia Minor - an interesting insight of Romanesque architecture origins - direct or, which is more likely - showing the general direction of Roman and post-Roman art in the early-medieval world.

View of the now-abandoned Dünamünde fortress nearby Riga, Latvia.

Emerging as a fortified German monastery, the fortification reached its peak under Russian Empire, being turned into a huge star-fortress to defend one of the most important northern cities of the country.

Under Nicholas II, it was further developed - but in revolutionary chaos still defendable fortress was blown up and abandoned, and despite various efforts continues to decay.