St. Sophia Cathedral's model is made of Easter eggs in Kiev
OrthoNews
21 April 2008, 15:04
St. Sophia Cathedral's model is made of Easter eggs in Kiev
Moscow, April 21, Interfax - A model of St. Sophia Cathedral is to be built
from eggs at the central square of Kiev to Easter.
The cupolas are also being made from eggs and then will be painted gold.
"Eggs construction" occupies ten square meters. Almost thousand eggs were
used to build a city of castles Kamenets-Podolsky. Fortresses and fortified
constructions of Kazacheskaya Sech, famous Lastochkino Gnezdo in Yalta and
the Black Sea are set up nearby.
Several layers of special glue were applied to harden the sculpture so that
it didn't crash down while constructed. About 17 thousand eggs were used to
create so unusual map of Ukraine apart from the thousand crushed ones, the
Vremya TV program broadcasted on the Pervy canal has reported.
The eggs map will be consecrated before Easter and then each Easter egg will
be presented as a souvenir.