House-of-Culture mosaic, Sadaclia
Two large figurative mosaic panels on the end walls of the House of Culture in Sadaclia, a village in the Basarabeasca district of southern Moldova. The building is a low, elongated Soviet house of culture with a columned veranda; the two flanking wings carry folk and labour scenes in a cool range of blue, gold and white — a windmill or solar wheel, a woman in folk costume, a shepherd with a staff and, toward the right, a horse team with sowing or reaping figures. The work belongs to the Soviet tradition of monumental mosaic on houses of culture, built in the 1960s–80s from smalt and ceramic, usually by craftspeople who went unnamed. The artist and year are undocumented. Sadaclia lies in the Bugeac on the left bank of the Cogâlnic and — contrary to a common impression that it is a Bulgarian-Gagauz village — the sources describe it as one of the few new Moldovan settlements founded in the region (around 1816–1821, on the site of a former Tatar-Nogai locality), with an overwhelmingly Moldovan population at the 2004 census. The photographs were published under a free licence (CC0).
- Track
- Southern Moldova
- Neighborhood
- Sadaclia, Basarabeasca district
- Building
- Casa de Cultură, Sadaclia, r. Basarabeasca