Holy Trinity Church (Goryngrad First)

First Temple

According to the Vedomosti churches of the city of Rivne and Rivne district from 1798 (F. G. 639. - Op. 2. - From No. 1, Rivne state archive) in 1789 in the town of Goryngrad there was its own wooden Trinity church ^[3] .

As a result of the second and third sections of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (in 1793 and 1795), m. Goryngrad, like the whole of Volyn , became part of the Russian Empire , becoming part of the Volyn province of the Rivne district of the Tuchinsky volost.

It was at this time in the city of Goryngrad that the new Orthodox Holy Trinity Church was built at the expense of Prince Gabriel Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky and parishioners. After the blessing of Bishop of Volyn and Zhytomyr Daniel (March 23, 1811), a stone church was built from 1812 to 1816. Since 1815, copies of the metric book and confession information have been kept in Goryngrad.

The first head priest of the Holy Trinity Church was father Vasily Semenovich Shushkovsky, who was 49 years old in 1816, and clerk Mikhail Zdanevich (42 years old). After the death of Father Vasily Shushkovsky, the son-in-chief of V. S. Shushkovsky Ivan Ivanovich Opatovich was appointed rector of the Temple. The church had significant land holdings. This is evidenced by the description of church property from 1835: from tithes to garden crops, 45 dess. 1.30 soot. - Arable land, 6 dess. 846 soot. - haymaking at p. Horyn , 1 dess. 1,266 soot. - To the apiary and other lands (2 dess., 1953 soot.). The church attendants received the following salaries: a priest - 300 rubles, a clerk - 50 rubles, a sexton - 38 rubles, a mallow - 16 rubles. The Vedomosti churches of the city of Rivne and Rivne Uyezd from 1891 (F. G. 639. - Op. 2. - From No. 58, Rivne State Archive) provides data on the parish school in the town of Goryngrad, which opened on February 12 1885 p. She was kept at the expense of peasants and the church ^[3] .

In 1905 , the brother of the future head priest of the church, Sergei Seletsky Vyacheslav, who then served as clerical servant of the State Bank of the Russian Empire ^[4] , presented the temple with the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, which was painted and consecrated on Mount Athos in 1902, and her robe was created with donations from philanthropists in 1905. This icon is one of the main shrines of the modern temple in the village. Goryngrad First ^[5] .

During the civil war , parts of Germans and Bolsheviks passed through the village. In the house of the priest S. G. Seletsky, the leaders of the First Cavalry Army S. Budyonny and K. Voroshilov stayed - as evidenced by the entries in the book. The book was transferred later to the Volyn Museum of Local Lore (Lutsk) ^[6] .

In the Polish period of history, Father Sergey Seletsky was the rector, Ignatius Goryun, the psalmist, and Fedor Shevchuk, church elder since 1924. The church owned 36 hectares of land, including: 3 hectares - under the estate, 27 hectares - arable land, 6 hectares - hayfields. The average annual income of the temple amounted to 1100 zlotys. During 1925 and 1928 - 19.25 hectares of church land was captured by Poland ^[3] .

During the period of the Nazi occupation, divine services in the Holy Trinity Church did not stop. At this time, Archpriest Nikolai Tuchemsky was appointed rector of the church, and priest Leonty Matviychuk as vicar. The service was conducted in Ukrainian. The psalmist was Nikolai Matviychuk, who was later condemned by the Bolsheviks. Later N. Tuchemsky became rector of the Volyn Theological Seminary (1945-1959). He went down in the history of the Ukrainian Church as one of the most prominent representatives of the clergy ^[7] .

In the early 50's. under the guidance of about. Leonty Matviychuk began to close the dome of the temple, but he still did not have time to complete the work - on November 5, 1952, the priest died. For more than three decades, the priest gave all his strength to the citizens of Gornograd, confirming them in Holy Orthodoxy.

From 1969 to 1971 The temple was renovated. In 1968, electricity was conducted, and 1971 p. the area around the church was fenced with metal mesh. In 1975, the Shroud of the Mother of God was restored and a number of other repair restoration work was performed ^[3] .

On July 15, 1983, after the death of Archpriest Peter Metelsky, Alexey Grigoryevich Dyachuk was appointed rector of the Holy Trinity Church, Archbishop of Volyn and Rivne Damian . More than 30 years about. A. Dyachuk - rector of the Holy Trinity Church, and his wife Maria performs the functions of clerk. Over the years, much has been done under the leadership of Father Alexei: the church building has been gasified, the church’s external and internal repairs have been completed, the fence around the church has been changed, rural cemeteries have been improved, church equipment has been restored and acquired, the column of the Mother of God has been reconstructed ^[8] .

Modern Temple

The idea of ​​a complete reconstruction of the Holy Trinity Church and the restoration of icons, an iconostasis, art paintings on the walls of the church belongs to Nikolai Ivanovich Gritsak, who in 2001 discussed it with the rector of the church, father Alexei. At that time, the roof was leaking, heating did not work well, the icons were destroyed due to temperature changes, especially in winter. The bell tower, which actually has not undergone major repairs, since the opening of the temple, has almost collapsed and was in disrepair.

June 11, 2001 Gritsak N.I. passed away. On the anniversary of the memory of Nikolai Ivanovich in 2002, a meeting between Father Alexei and the Gritsak brothers took place, where it was decided to begin the preparatory phase for the reconstruction and restoration of the temple. At the end of 2008, a reconstruction and restoration project was developed, which was agreed with the Rivne diocese and Metropolitan Bartholomew . The entire complex of works on the reconstruction and restoration of the temple was led by the famous builder of the Rivne region Igor Davidchuk.

Construction and installation work began in March 2009. The superintendent Sharapa Bogdan Denisovich was directly involved in the work. First of all, foundation structures were strengthened by local concreting, window blocks were replaced. After that, a continuous system of internal scaffolding was erected, after which the roof repair work began. All wooden structures were completely changed and a complex of heat-, moisture- and a couple of insulating measures was arranged, as well as an external coating was installed with letters with galvanic gilding.

Inside, all the internal plaster has been restored. The restoration of the interior painting of the temple took the most time. Another significant step in improving the operation of the church was to provide the church with new water supply and sewage systems, as well as heating devices with an autonomous boiler room, which allowed creating comfortable climatic conditions inside the church and arranging a high-quality ceramic granite floor with a heating life of at least 50 years.

Systems of autonomous energy supply of the temple, outdoor lighting, and landscaping of the internal and external territories were arranged. Consolidated bell tower and places for people to relax. In addition, the facade of the temple was decorated with a modern high-quality vapor-permeable silicone insulation system, which allows the walls to breathe and remove moisture from the walls.

The preparation of the project for the restoration of the iconostasis and all artwork was entrusted to the artist and restorer Vladimir Trofimchuk and his wife Lyudmila - residents of s. Kotov Rivne region, who had extensive experience in such restoration and painting and decorating in Rivne, Volyn and many regions of Ukraine and the Russian Federation . It was decided to preserve all the elements of the ancient iconostasis, wall paintings, ceilings, ancient icons. Also a great contribution to the preservation of the history of the Holy Trinity Church was made by Anatoly Pokhilyuk, a native of Goryngrad I, who was a photographer and local historian.

All funding for construction, installation and finishing works was undertaken by the brothers Vasily ^[9] and Vitaly Gritsaki. On the territory of the temple all the trees that covered the temple were uprooted, since they were rotten and there was a high probability of their falling on the walls of the temple. A significant role in the appearance of the temple was played by the establishment of additional gilded domes, as well as the replacement of the cross on the central dome.

The main construction and installation works were completed during 2012. During the reconstruction, the latest technologies and high-quality building materials were used. On September 21, 2012, the renovated church was opened with the participation of Orthodox clergymen of Ukraine, people's deputies of Ukraine, leaders of the region and district ^{[10] [11]} . As a result, the appearance was thoroughly improved over four years, all icons and interior decoration were restored, a monument to Prince Gabriel of Chetvertinsky was erected and a book about the Holy Trinity Church (2016) was published.

In 2014, on Holy Easter, Vasily Gritsak paid a visit to Mount Athos in Greece , where the rector of the monastery, Dohiar Archimandrite Gregory (Zumis), blessed the Holy Icon “The Rush” for the Holy Trinity Church. The original holy icon is in the Dohiar Monastery. In May 2015, the icon was already painted and consecrated by Archimandrite Gregory along with the monastery brethren. On the Day of the Holy Spirit, the icon of the “Quick Hearing” was brought to the Holy Trinity Church. In the service there were about 2 thousand people who adhered to the miraculous icon.

Near the temple is located known for its healing properties - the source of the Holy Trinity ^[12] , which was discovered back in 1816, but was also completely renovated in the course of the complex restoration of the temple. According to the results of the hydrochemical analysis of the laboratory for monitoring water and soils of the Rivne regional water management department, the source water has the following indicators: Ph - 6.89; chlorides, mg / dm3 - 4.96; alkalinity, mEq / dm3 - 7.5; stiffness, mEq / dm3 - 6.3; calcium, mg / dm3 - 90.18; magnesium, mg / dm3 - 21.89; iron, mg / dm3 - 0.008.

Now the composition of the parish of the Holy Trinity Church includes villages: Goryngrad Pervy , Gorynggrad II and Rysvyanka . In the villages of Mikulin and Kotov in 1998 and 1999. their temples were built ^[3] .

The temple was built in the style of Alexander Classicism, which was formed in the prewar period in 1800 - 1812 . This style is characterized by severity of lines, monumentality and majesty of images, simplicity and clarity of silhouette.

There are three chapels in the cathedral: the main one - the Holy Trinity , and the side - on the honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary .

The main relics of the Holy Trinity Church are the Miracle-working icons of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God and the Icon of the Mother of God the Naughty Girl from the Holy Mount Athos (for more details see the "History" section), which are located in the central part of the iconostasis .

Among the other relics of the church, it is necessary to note the Pochaevsky descent icon of the main iconostasis, which the faithful brought to the Holy Trinity Church from the Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra in 1910. Also, the Pochaev icons of the Savior and the Mother of God , painted and consecrated in the Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra 1831 and the Icon of the Mother of God the Acolyte from Mount Athos .

In addition, the church has preserved historical icons and objects of religious worship : paired icons of the Savior and the Virgin (XIX century), the Icon of the Mother of God of the Burning Cupina (50s of the XX century), the icon of the Lord Almighty , the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker , the icon of the Holy Basil , icon of St. Anthony Dymsky with relics particle icon hieromartyr Vladimir (Bogoyavlenskogo) - Metropolitan Kiev and Galicia with relics, icon Monks Onufrius Great and Peter Afonsky with relics, icon of St. Arsenii Konevski th with relics and icons Venerable Job of Pochaev and Fedor Prince of Ostrog , icon of the Great Martyr Demetrius , an old corporal (1794) and The Holy Shroud (XIX and XX centuries.).

On the walls there are paintings-icons to honor:

• The image of the Descent of the Holy Spirit ;
• "St. Nicholas of Myra ";
• Saints of Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius and the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir (created at the expense of Vasily Artyukh in 1897);
• "The Holy Trinity" (in the New Testament concept);
• Saints the First Martyr Archdeacon Stephen and Archdeacon Lawrence ;
• St. Theodosius - Archbishop of Chernigov;

as well as faces:

• The prophets of Anna ;
• Rev. Vitaly ;
• St. John Chrysostom ;
• St. Mary Magdalene ;
• St. Theodosius of the Caves ;
• St. Basil the Great ;
• Holy Great Martyr Catherine .

As part of the reconstruction of the temple in 2009-2016, a monument to Prince Gabriel Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky, the founder of the Holy Trinity Church, was erected in the courtyard. In addition, a memorial to the 2000th anniversary of the Nativity of Christ and the grave of the former head priest I. Opatovich and his family were thoroughly reconstructed.

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• Gritsak V.N. Holy Trinity Temple p. Goryngrad First: 200 years since its foundation. - Kiev: KVITs, 2016 .-- S. 192 . ^[13]
• Gritsak V.M., Sychik O.V. My village is my soul: the annals of the villages of Goringgrad-I and Goringrad-II of the Rivne region of the Rivne region. Story. Facts. Modernity. - Kharkov: FO-P Zalogin S.A., 2013 .-- S. 336 .

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