I found a REAL Sarafan temple!

[Ber]

Guys, some news around here!

I was surfing across the web and found this:



Familiar?? hehe

It's the Niagara Mohawk Building, Syracuse... and it looks very similar to the Sarafan Brotherhood symbol used in SR2 and Defiance!



Finally we come to know what inspired them to create such a neat symbol! I'm a leaving a couple of pictures here:







It looks like some sort of ornamental angel (EDIT: it actually represents the spirit of electricity), and there's some other ornamental statues across the building:



What do you think? Is this definitely where the Sarafan symbol came?

Regards