Zakomara

They were placed on the walls, vaults, as well as the shrinking tiers at the base of the tents and reels of chapters in church buildings.

From the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, zakomars were a typical detail in the ancient Russian Orthodox church architecture.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, zakomar coverings were replaced with four-pitched roofs in many churches.

Because of the spread of the retrospective trends in the Russian Empire’s architecture, zakomars reappeared in the church buildings.

It was due to the appearance of construction technology, which created rain and snow resistant zakomar coverings.