Village-shop mosaic, Ișcalău
A Soviet-era mosaic on the facade of the village shop in Ișcalău, a commune in Fălești district, northern Moldova. It belongs to a practice common across the Moldavian SSR of decorating ordinary rural public buildings — shops, kindergartens, milk-collection points, bus shelters — with mosaic panels, turning standardised architecture into local landmarks. The „Mosaics of Moldova” inventory credits the work to Ghenadie Micleușanu, a maker named only in that catalogue and otherwise undocumented; the same village holds a second mosaic attributed to him, on the kindergarten, so Ișcalău preserves at least two works by the same hand. The year is unknown and the panel's subject is not documented — the only images are the inventory photographs taken by Anatolie Ciobanu, which carry no licence allowing them to be reproduced here.
- Track
- Northern Moldova
- Neighborhood
- Ișcalău, r. Fălești
- Artist
- Ghenadie Micleușanu
- Building
- Magazinul sătesc, Ișcalău, r. Fălești