Piatnytska Church (Chernihiv)

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Pyatnytska Church П'ятницька церква
Religion
Affiliation	Eastern Orthodox Church
District	Orthodox Church of Ukraine
Location
Location	Chernihiv, Ukraine
Architecture
Type	Church
Style	Ukrainian Baroque
Completed	the end of the 12th century – beginning of the 13th century

Piatnytska (St. Paraskeva) Сhurch^[1] (Ukrainian: П'ятницька (святої Параскеви) церква) is a functioning church in Chernihiv, Ukraine.

History

Piatnytska Church was built at the end of the 12th century – beginning of the 13th century at Chernihiv public sale area. It is a four-pillar, one-dome, square church.

It differed from other Chernihiv churches by completion and decoration of the facades with all types of architectural ornaments and by composition of arches under the drum.

It was restored in 1670 and 1690s by costs of Chernihiv colonel V.Dunyn-Borkovskyi in the

In the 17th - 18th centuries there was a nunnery in the church, which was burned out in 1750.

In 1820s a two-storeyed belfry (the architect is A.Kartashevskyi) was built, which was dismantled in 1962.

In 1943 the church was destroyed.

It was restored in 1962 according to the project of Petro Baranovskyi in somewhat changed style similar to Russian churches (in particular the dome).

The fate of this monument is unusual. A small Piatnytska Church stood on the public sale area of Chernihiv (

In 1943 a soviet bomb hit the building. The prominent Soviet researcher of

See also

• List of Churches and Monasteries in Chernihiv

References

• Encyclopedia of Ukraine

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pyatnytska Church (Chernihiv).

• 3D-model of the Piatnytska church(Google Earth)

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