The dome of the tower of the Old Castle has become 4 meters higher. A new element added to it

A few weeks ago, the attention of many regional media was riveted on the Old Castle in Grodno.

On 4th of March 4 a 12-ton dome was installed on the entrance tower, which before that, for several months, the capital’s craftsmen were lined with tinned copper. Today it was complemented by a new decorative element — a four-meter detail resembling a spire.

It was sheathed using the same technology of double horizontal and vertical folds, in which the seams are tight. It took a little more than a week. But the current transformation of the dome is not yet final. According Sergei Bucha, construction manager, the final element of the dome will be a spire made of stainless steel and copper more than four meters high, some of which will be covered with gold. Its manufacture is carried out by specialists of Belrestavratsiya OJSC.

By Ekaterina Motevich
Photo by Mikhail Isachenko