St. Nicholas Church ( Belorussian. Svyatka-Mikalaye Tsarkva ) is an Orthodox church in the city of Krichev , located on the castle hillfort [1] near the Sozh River , at ul. Sozhevaya, 43 [2] . The temple was built in 1945 on the site of the burned [3] . It is a monument of wooden architecture [4] . There is a Sunday school at the temple.
| Orthodox church | |
| St. Nicholas Church | |
|---|---|
| Holy Mikalay Tsarva | |
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| A country |  Republic of Belarus |
| City | Krichev |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Diocese | Mogilev and Mstislav diocese |
| Reverence | Mstislavskoe |
| First mention | 1682 year |
| Building | 1944 - 1945 |
 | Object of the State list of historical and cultural values of the Republic of Belarus Code: 513G000482 |
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History
The first documentary evidence of the existence of the temple on Krichev Castle Hill dates back to 1682 and is contained in the city inventory. It is indicated that the church of St. Nicholas is located in the castle, to the left of the entrance tower. In the inventory of 1694, it is noted that the church has a "belfry", where the military bell is fixed. During the Northern War (1700-1721), Krichev Castle was destroyed, inventory of 1709 indicates that only the church survived [3] [5] . After the war and until the first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1772), the church several times passed from the hands of the Orthodox to the Uniates and vice versa [3] . At the end of the 18th century, the church is mentioned as one of the 7 churches operating in the city [6] .
Newest Time
The temple continued to work after the 1917 revolution and during the Great Patriotic War . But in 1944, after the liberation of Krichev , the church was burned down, presumably by an atheist fanatic. Immediately after the fire, the townspeople began to rebuild the church. In the village of Labkovichi , a wooden house was bought, disassembled and rafted along Sozh to Castle Hill. Initially, the building was a four-wall 6x6 meters in size. In 1945, the temple was consecrated and open to believers. Later, the building was expanded: the apse and baptistery were attached [3] .
Since 1962 , when the Holy Protection Church was closed, the church remained the only one working in the city and its environs, until the beginning of the 90s [4] .
In the postwar years, priests served in the church: Pyotr Voytovich, Fedor Khryashchevsky, Vladimir Stolyar, John Zakharchenko, Vassian Neverovsky. From September 1965 until his death in August 2014, Father Mikhail Makovtsov served in the church, subsequently a mitrophor archpriest who received the nickname "People’s Father" [3] . In the second half of the 80s there was a second priest in the church, they were at different times: Deacon Victor Dvorokovsky, Peter Ilyenya, Nikolai Chernyak. Since 2011, the priest in the church has been a local native, father Andrei Ignatushko.
The patronal feast is celebrated on May 9 (22) - the day of the arrival of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the city of Bari (in the folk tradition of " Nicholas Spring "). Also, every Thursday at 9:00 akathist Nicholas the Wonderworker is served in the temple.
Structural Features
The rectangular main log house is covered by a gable roof. A two-tier turret with a small dome rises above the ridge of the roof. A small rectangular bobbin and a lower pentahedral altar apse, equal in height to it, adjoin the main log house. The sacristy is attached on the south side, and the baptistery on the north side. In the decor of the facades, dummies and a horizontal vagina with emphasis on the basement and frieze were used . The interior is hall, the ceiling is flat, hem. The temple is a monument of wooden architecture [4] .
See also
- Krichevsky castle
- Resurrection Church (Krichev)
- Holy Protection Church (Krichev)
Notes
- ↑ Krichevsky castle
- ↑ List of parishes of the Mogilev diocese Archived on June 27, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Ignatushko A. M. St. Nicholas Church on Castle Hill in Krichev // Mogilev diocesan sheets : magazine. - 2005. - No. 4 (157) . - S. 22-24 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Borisenko N. S. Mogilevschina - my favorite Dnieper region (collection of excursions). Parts 1-11 . - Mogilev: Mogilev. reg. Ukrup. typ., 2007 .-- S. 176. - 832 p. - ISBN 978-985-6848-05-9 .
- ↑ Medieval Krichev
- ↑ Sights of Krichevsky district | Mogilev Regional Executive Committee
Literature
- Borisenko N. S. Mogilevschina - my favorite Dnieper region (collection of excursions). Parts 1-11 . - Mogilev: Mogilev. reg. Ukrup. typ., 2007 .-- 832 s. - ISBN 978-985-6848-05-9 .
- Miatselsky AA Staradaўnі Krychaў: Gistarychna-archealagichesky narys of the city of hell of old-time clocks of the 18th century Canza .. - Minsk: Belaruskaya Navuka, 2003. - 167 p. - ISBN 985-08-0541-2 .
Links
- St. Nicholas Church on the website of the Globus of Belarus.
- St. Nicholas Church on the website Radzima.org.
- St. Nicholas Church on the site Orthodox architecture of Belarus.
- “Lock up Gary ўladar” - article in the newspaper “Earth and People”, January 5, 1995. (belor.)
- “Our father!” - article in the newspaper “Krichevskaya Zhizn”, May 4, 2011.
- “Churches of Castle Hill” - an article in the newspaper “Krichevskaya Zhizn”, April 13, 2016.
- “The more I write the icons, the more I am convinced of the correctness of my choice” - article on 21.by.