Why Build With Wood?

BY AWAKE! CORRESPONDENT IN JAPAN

GLISTENING like silvery fish scales in the cool sun of northwest Russia are 22 onion-​shaped cupolas sitting atop a wooden church. A closer look reveals that the cupolas are covered with thousands of wooden tiles, now weathered by age. For almost three hundred years, this wooden building on an island in Lake Onega has been defying the country’s harsh winters. Silently it testifies to the amazing durability of wood.

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Onion-​shaped cupolas atop wooden church on island in Lake Onega