ARCHITECTURE AS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE ANCIENT RUSSIAN HUMAN’S WORLDVIEW
The article discusses the features of the human understanding of the world through the prism of ancient construction of architectural objects, which in this case are the Orthodox churches. The characteristic features of the ancient architecture of the church and their importance in the philosophical sense are presented in the article; the article considers the characteristic features of planning and spatial organization of cross churches and the symbolic meaning of the church itself.