Church of the Intercession on the Nerl

Name: Church of the Intercession on the Nerl
Start: 1165
Location: Bogolyubovo, near Vladimir

c. 1165 · Bogolyubovo, near Vladimir · Eastern Europe & Russia · Culture

A white-stone church in a meadow, the emblem of Vladimir Rus'

Church of the Intercession on the Nerl — E.3 · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Andrey Bogolyubsky built the church where the Nerl meets the Klyazma, by tradition in memory of a son who died. Each spring the graceful white-stone church on its man-made mound stands amid the floodwaters. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

State: Principality of Ryazan, Kievan Rus'

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Europe

1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun — 2 years earlier

Alive at the time

Saladin (aged 28)
Genghis Khan (aged 3)
Hildegard of Bingen (aged 67)
Andrey Bogolyubsky (aged 54)
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (aged 39)
Henry II (aged 32)
Minamoto no Yoritomo (aged 18)
Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 11)
Richard the Lionheart (aged 8)
Philip II Augustus (aged 0)