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Ninety seconds on Holy Trinity Cathedral
In the centre of Karakol, on any walk through town, you can stop at a Russian cathedral built of wood.
Wood was chosen for a reason: a wooden church survives tremors that bring down masonry, and this one replaced a stone church lost to an earthquake.
After the revolution the building served as a school, a sports venue, a theatre, a dance hall and a coal store before it went back to the church.
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