The isle of Kizhi lies on the north-west of Lake Onega, not far from the city of Petrozavodsk. By the 15th-16th centuries the Kizhi pogost, a settlement with a church and a cemetery, had already been the center of a large community comprising several neighbouring villages. Kizhi is a unique ensemble of Russian wooden architecture, where every structure testifies to the inspired work of the craftsmen of the 18th and 19th century. The many-tiered, twenty-two-domed Church of the Transfiguration, the Church of the Intercession, similar to it in style, though smaller in size, and the tent-roofed belfry perfectly harmonize with the austere northern scenery.