Wall mosaic, Hîrtopul Mic

A monumental mosaic on the wall of a building in the village of Hîrtopul Mic, Hîrtopul Mare commune, Criuleni district, central Moldova (north-east of Chișinău). The panel is a large figurative composition accompanied by Cyrillic lettering — the kind of inscription (slogan or dedication) common on Soviet facade mosaics of houses of culture, schools or cooperative buildings. Such wall panels, alongside the decorated bus stops, were one of the widespread forms of monumental art across the villages of the Moldovan SSR in the 1960s–80s. Hîrtopul Mic, a village of about 730 people, has the „St. Dumitru” church, a state-protected monument. The precise location was fixed from the photo's geotag and the Wikimedia Commons category; the mosaic's author and year are unrecorded.

Track

Central Moldova (Codru)

Neighborhood

Hîrtopul Mic, Criuleni district

Building

Mozaic pe perete, Hîrtopul Mic, r. Criuleni

Photos: Gganebnyi (CC BY-SA 4.0)