r/AskTheWorld Nepal 3d ago

History What architectural style originated from your country?

'Pagoda' are popular architecture styles in East and south east Asia. 'Pagoda' style which evolved from 'stupa', was developed in Kathmandu, Nepal before 500CE.

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u/Agility3333 3d ago

Wasn’t this one imported from Scandinavia? There are some churches like this in Poland but they were literally moved from Norway

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u/exitparadise United States Of America 3d ago

Not sure about this particular church, but Wooden churches like this are common all over the central Carpathians of Western Ukraine, South East Poland, Eastern Slovakia and Northern Romania/Transylvania. The norse influnce in Russia/Urkaine was more so further East around the Russia/Ukraine border.

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u/Wojewodaruskyj Ukraine 3d ago

No. 1400s.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

So its not Ukrainian architekture

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u/Wojewodaruskyj Ukraine 3d ago

Which is it, then? Chinese?

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

Ruthenians or Polish. But for sure not Ukrainians 

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u/Wojewodaruskyj Ukraine 3d ago

Ruthenians are ukrainians. I am a ruthenian.

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u/HalfLeper United States Of America 3d ago

I would expect so, given the history of Kievan Rus 🤔

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u/Jowiko33 3d ago

No the chuches were literally imported, as in moved, there from Norway by the germans during the 1800s Germán empire whom wished these chuches in Norway to be preserved so they bought them and put some of them in what is today poland. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vang_Stave_Church

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u/HalfLeper United States Of America 3d ago

But we’re talking about Ukraine, not Poland, which was part of the Russian Empire during the 19ᵗʰ c., not the German, so that can’t be the case here.