Usually, in Russia, temple buildings are square in plan. But sometimes our ancestors built round religious buildings. For example, the Church of the Intercession of the Virgin in Osorgino, Kaluga region. Only the round temple building remained, with significant damage.
The refectory was destroyed, and the arch of the passage collapsed significantly. There is no altar either, and even the walls of it are gone. It looks like they were deliberately demolished.
Ruined altar.
Window openings are also broken. The dome begins to collapse.
A crumbling passage to the refectory and broken windows.
The collapsing window openings of the dome.
Glasses are long gone, and the door leaves are rusted. Also holes.
However, this building has amazing acoustics. Despite the large holes where the sound wave irrevocably leaves, the sound is amplified many times inside the church. Even the sound of footsteps on the ground echoes inside. The whisper at the wall is perfectly audible throughout the room. If you stand under the dome, in the center, and give out a strong sound, then a powerful resonance arises, which shakes out the whole body and causes goosebumps in the back of the head.
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Despite the large holes, the acoustics in the temple are excellent.
This effect in the temple is not accidental. Modern religion has come up with a funny explanation, they say, temples were built to hang icons in them, pray and light candles. And the dome is a symbol of the sky. Therefore, our ancestors spent a lot of money, effort, materials and time to build an expensive and complex building. Just to pray to the icon and listen to the priest. Although for this purpose, any spacious room is sufficient. Well, that the echo is strong in the temple - it probably happened by chance. How do our dark ancestors know the physics of acoustic vibrations?
The dome is an acoustic resonator.
Builders of the past deliberately calculated the acoustics of the temple to serve as an acoustic resonator. For multiplying sound amplification. The architects were well versed in the physics of air vibrations and deliberately designed the building as an amplifier. But what should be the characteristics of the sound and what effect should be achieved?
Temples and churches were deliberately designed to enhance acoustic resonance.
The distance to the top point of the dome is 15 meters 30 centimeters.
The diameter of the temple is 8 meters 70 centimeters.
Alas, the priests will not tell this. Today's Christian Orthodoxy has lost the real meaning of churches and temples, and only observes rituals, the origin and essence of which it does not understand.
Author: Artyom Voitenkov