ARCHITECTURE
wooden architecture — research, maintenance and restoration

The Chapel of the Mother of God the ‘Consolation of All the Afflicted’ is a typical local chapel with two floors of equal width and height and a belfry. It consists of a rectangular praying room and a passage, which are covered by a single double-sloping roof. The roof above the praying area is crowned with a wireframe dome placed on a low octahedron. Walls are straight without upper part of the framework expanded. Octahedron walls of the belfry are not expanded, too. Pillars of unclosed floor are double, and the eternal ones hold the upper stud. The northern side of wall is fixed with tight wireframe porch.

Window openings which are cut through side facades and decorated with frames made of profiled planks break the ‘monotony’ of plane flat walls.

The praying area of the Chapel of the Mother of God the ‘Consolation of All the Afflicted’ is planked from inside, the flat ceilings are fixed so that the planks are overlapping each other and are lower in the passage than in the praying area. The edges of ceiling boards inside the prayer area are cut with beading plane. The steep stairs lead from the passage to the belfry. The window frames are fixed with three jambs, which are attached to the wall at right angles, the door has three mitered jambs , the frame of the inner door is flanged. The inner door is paneled, and the eternal one is made of planks fixed with wooden dowels.