It is a small church with a tetragon plan and two domes: The big one is in the central part of prayer room and the other one is on the altar, the English newspaper, Iran Daily, reported.
Bricks and concrete are used in constructing the church.
Kantur Church has an entrance surrounded by two walls adorned with Russians crosses.
There is a three-storey bell-house at the entrance that is bounded by a small dome. A gable roof with wooden columns has been built in front of the entrance to protect the wooden door. There are big columns in the four corners of outer walls that add to its beauty.
There are big columns- similar to prayer room - in two corners of the bell tower. There are four columns in the four corners of the second storey of tower.
In addition to prayer room's skylight, bell-tower also has skylights. The Church's yard is brick-paved. There are some tombs in the yard - one of them belonging to a Russian pilot.
This small church has a cross-like representation. The entrance of the church, located on the western angle and includes an entrance hallway with a sloping roof.
After the entrance, there is a foyer with a bell tower standing 11 meters high.
The hall has a prayer room and an altar with two rectangular spaces located on two sides.
Altar space is semi-circle and has a dome on it. Prayer room has a dome. There are decorated columns in the church's exterior.
Qazvin province is in the northwest of the central plateau of Iran. It is bound by the provinces of Mazandaran and Gilan to the north, provinces of Hamedan and Zanjan to the west, Markazi in the south, and Tehran province to the east. Qazvin is also situated near Alamut region, which Hassan Sabbah, the leader of Ismailites in Iran, chose as his headquarters.
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Tehran, July 13, IRNA - Kantur Church, which is also known as 'Borj-e Naqus', was built in Qazvin by the Russians during the World War II.
