St. Mitrofan's Church

Dear readers, we are pleased to present you our new work, architectural lighting of the St. Mitrofan Church in the urban-type settlement of Nedrigailov, Sumy region.
This church turned 100 years old in 2012. Today, serious restoration work has been carried out in the church, which culminated in external architectural lighting that expressively emphasizes the architectural uniqueness of the church. The lighting task was not an easy one due to the low budget. It was decided to carry out architectural lighting of the church itself, and leave the construction of the bell tower and baptistery for a later period.
For lighting the columns and pronounced architectural elements, inexpensive KH-SC08-220 and KH-SC04-810 floodlights in white and yellow with 30-degree secondary optics were chosen. For lighting the domes, KH-SC10 matrix floodlights with a power of 10 W and a luminous flux of 1100 lm based on high-quality Lustron matrices without secondary optics were used, providing a wide beam angle of 120 degrees and having a low cost.
A little later, the walls of the bell tower and baptistery were additionally illuminated with budget floodlights similar to the KH-SC10 with a luminous flux of 700 lm. This, of course, does not quite match the architecture and lighting project. It eats up some of the architectural elements, creates a whole series of parasitic highlights and shadows, but overall it gives more light to the object, illuminating the walls, trees and surrounding area, making the architectural complex of the temple more lively and attractive, while at the same time allowing for some savings.
The total power consumption of all equipment was 1.2 kW. LED equipment made it possible to create lighting equal in brightness to metal halide equipment, which would consume at least 9.5 kW.