The pogost of Kizhi (i.e. the Kizhi enclo­sure) is locat­ed on one of the many islands in Lake One­ga, in Kare­lia. Two 18th-cen­­tu­ry wood­en church­es, and an octag­o­nal clock tow­er, also in wood and built in 1862, can be seen there. These unusu­al con­struc­tions, in which car­pen­ters cre­at­ed a bold vision­ary archi­tec­ture, per­pet­u­ate an ancient mod­el of parish space and are in har­mo­ny with the sur­round­ing land­scape.