Travel / Early churches (built 700-1000 years ago) in Poland? [25]

Thank you .The Church of St. Adalbert or Church of St. Wojciech (Polish: Kościół św. Wojciecha) is interesting, as it is square which is a Persian fire-temple shape compared to Roman basilica-shape churches. Scythians had square temples, like some Ukraine / Russian church buildings. Scythians had a snake-woman legend, which may be linked to Russian rusalki, Polish syrenka legend of a river fish-woman. The snake-dragon is seen on Norwegian church roofs. It is possible that the first Church of St Adalbert which was built of wood, had dragons on the roof. Moscow has a dragon of St George, from Georgia in Scythian land.

There is also a Church of St. Adalbert at Ore - a village located in £ódź Province , in the county Wielun , in the municipality of Wielun. It has unusual steps in the end of the roof, the gable, which may be from a tradition of roof dragons and which were removed by Church authority.

Travel / Early churches (built 700-1000 years ago) in Poland? [25]

Hi Bzibzioh,
Herodotus wrote:
"In the early days, at least, the Scythians made no use of images in their worship of the gods, though animal sacrifices were frequently made to their divinities. . In spite of the frequency of these sacrifices, there was a complete absence of altars and temples except for the peculiar altars erected in honor of the god of war. One of these altars was placed in the center of each district. It consisted merely of a great pile of brushwood with a square platform on top. Three sides of the huge altar were perpendicular, while the fourth was sloping so that persons might walk up it. An iron sword was planted on top these altars and served as the representative of the god of war.

Each year numerous sacrifices of cattle and of horses ..."
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Do you have a quote about Sarmatian temples?

Travel / Early churches (built 700-1000 years ago) in Poland? [25]

boletus,
It is 19.5 meters long and 8 meters wide. Is the middle section a square, 8x8 meters? The other 2 sections appear to be about 11 meters. Is there a door on the opposite side to the door shown here?

Travel / Early churches (built 700-1000 years ago) in Poland? [25]

Scythians were also ruling north India and reached Burma. In north Thailand, temples have some similarity to Norwegian and Polish roof design.
Nan Temples | Nan Northern Thailand

This may indicate a Scythian influence:
" Many central and south Asian states and regions end with the element -stan, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Baluchistan, Kurdistan, and Turkistan. This -stan is formed from the Iranian root *stā-, "to stand, stay," and means "place (where one stays), home, country." Iranian peoples have been the principal inhabitants of the geographical region occupied by these states for over a thousand years. The names are compounds of -stan and the name of the people living there. . Interestingly, a word almost identical in form, etymology, and meaning to the Iranian suffix -stan is found in Polish, which has a word stan meaning "state" (in the senses of both polity and condition). It can be found in the Polish name for the "United States of America," Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki (literally "States United of America").