The Church of the Holy Spirit is a Catholic, originally Orthodox church, a monument of cult-defense architecture of the 16th century in the style of the so-called Belarusian Gothic. Located in the village of Koden (now - Biala County of the Lublin Voivodeship ).
| Catholic (originally Orthodox) temple | |
| Church of the Holy Spirit | |
|---|---|
| polish Kościół Świętego Ducha w Kodniu | |
 | |
| A country |  Poland |
| Village | Coden |
| Denomination | Catholicism |
| Type of building | Defensive temple |
| Architectural style | Belarusian Gothic |
| Founder | Ivan and Pavel Sapegi |
| Established | |
| Construction | 1513 - 1520 years |
| Status | Protected by the state [1] |
| Material | |
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Architecture
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
History
The Church of the Holy Spirit was built in 1513-1520 along with the castle founded by Ivan Sapieha and his son Paul , governor of Novogrudok . It was a palace church of the Sapeg clan until the 19th century . For many years, the miraculous image of the Mother of God of Kodeni was stored in this church, which, according to legend, was abducted by Nikolai Sapega in Rome in 1630.
At the beginning of the XVII century the church passed into Uniate . In 1817 it was closed due to poor technical condition.
In the interwar period after the repair, the Svyatoduhovskaya castle church temporarily served as the parish church of the restored Catholic Slavic-Byzantine rite (Uniate) parish of St. Michael the Archangel. After 1945 it is a branch church of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Anne in Coden. In the 1960s thoroughly restored.
Architecture
The temple is a concise compact rectangular volume (28.4 × 17 m), covered with a high gable roof, from which the apse protrudes strongly. A sacristy adjoins its northern wall. The internal space of the building is divided by four cruciform pillars in plan into three naves , covered with a mesh vault with ribs . In its architecture, the Svyatoduhovskaya church almost completely repeats the church in Ishkoldi , but unlike it has a semicircular apse instead of a faceted one, and a round turret with spiral staircases adjoins not in the northeast, but in the northwest corner of the Catholicon .
Built of brick using the technique of Gothic masonry on a sand-lime mortar. On the walls of the church there is a rhomboid ornament lined with burnt bricks.
The entrance is a semicircular arch, accented by a Renaissance edging. The walls outside are fortified with buttresses , which on the main western facade reach the pediment . Only the southern wall is cut through by semicircular window openings, which is also characteristic of the churches in Ishkoldi and Gniezno . The pediment is decorated with plastered and whitewashed twin niches . The colorful facade is enhanced by colorful inserts with images of saints. In recent times, curly columns were built on the gable slopes.
Church Plan in Coden
North facade and apse
Renaissance portal
Temple altar
Notes
- ↑ Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa: Rejestr zabytków nieruchomych - województwo lubelskie (link unavailable) (Polish)
Literature
- Gabrus T.V. Muravanyya Kharaly: Sacred architecture of the Belarusian baroque. - Minsk: Harvest, 2001 .-- 287 p. - ISBN 985-04-0499-X . (belor.)
- Kushnerevich A.N. Cultural Doylstva of Belarus XIII — XVI century .. - Minsk: Science and Technology, 1993. - ISBN 5-343-01403-8 . (belor.)