Hipped roof is a special type of a roof, widely used in Russian architecture for churches and belltowers.

Hipped roof originated from a Russian wooden architecture. In wooden churches (even modern ones) this type of roofs is still very popular. An example of a church with this type of roof is a church in Kondopoga, Russian Karelia.

There are several brick and stone churches with hipped roof. Among them are two famous churches of Russia: the Ascention church in Kolomenskoe and the Saint Basil's Cathedral (the central part of it). Both of them were built in the 16 century (actually, the Ascention church in Kolomenskoe was the first hipped-roof church made of brick ever built).

This type of churches is typically Russian and cound never be found in other Eastern Orthodox countries. Some specialist argue that hipped roofs have something common with European gothic style in architecture, and even tend to call this style 'Russian Gothic'.

In 17 century hipped roofs were not used for churches any more, but they became a typical architectural solution for church belltowers.