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Church of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary


Location: 26 km to the west of the village. Slavske village, Matkiv village, Turkivsky district.
How to Get There: From the town of Turki by hired or own transport you need to drive 10 km southwest along the national highway N-13 "Lviv-Uzhgorod" to the village of Borynya, where you turn left and drive another 30 km along the territorial road T1423 through the village. Verkhny Vysotskoe to the village of Matkov. From Slavske you will have to drive 32 km west through the villages of Lavochnoe and Tuchalka.

Church of the Holy Virgin CathedralUnfortunately, it was not possible to find the date of origin of the Church of the Holy Virgin Cathedral. Church of the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin. According to sources, in the XVIII century the local parish used the soils given to it by Ewa Matkowska Miklaszewiczowa and Lukasz Matkowski. In 1831 the church of the Escape to Egypt of the Virgin Mary, which already existed in the 18th century, fell into disrepair. In its place in 1838 the masters Ivan Melnikovich and Vasily Ivanovich built a new wooden church of the Boykovsky school, as evidenced by the now closed inscription on the jamb of the south door to the nave. On the main western portal the inscription is preserved: «Tey swiatyni fundamenta», on the left jamb: «Zalozone dnia 21 czerw . «, on the right: » Roku 1838 » . Church of the Holy Virgin Cathedral In 1928 the sacristy was completed, in 1939 the church was repaired, in 1949 — 1989 it was closed. After opening for services was re-consecrated to the church of St. Demetrius. The church is used by the UGCC congregation.

The lower church is located on a hill in the middle of the village, away from rural development. It is a three-brick, three-tiered, boykovsky type. The square log cabins (navi wider) are located on the east-west axis. Small rectangular sacristies adjoin on both sides of the altar. The main volumes are completed by eight-sided tops, over the nave — with five ledges, and over the altar and babinets — with four, crowned with helmet domes with poppies. The church is girdled by a curtain resting on stepped protruding crowns of logs, under which a glazed porch is arranged on the western facade. altar of the church of the Holy Virgin CathedralThe walls are upholstered vertically with boards and platbands. To the south-west of the church there is a wooden three-tiered, square in plan bell tower, with a balcony on the second tier, covered with a tent roof with a voice gallery under it. It was built on 01.09.1924 by the foreman Mikhail Veklich on the efforts of the father of the theologian Vladimir Kunovsky, about what the inscription on the jamb of the eastern door (now lost) informed.

In 2013, the Church of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of the unique Ukrainian wooden churches of the Carpathian region.

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