Pyrohoschtscha Church
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 48 ″ N , 30 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E
The Pyrohoschtscha Church , ( Ukrainian Церква Богородиці Пирогощої / Zerkwa Bohorodyzi Pyrohoschtschoji ) is an Orthodox church building of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate in the Ukrainian capital Kiev .
The three-aisled church is an architectural monument of national importance and is located on Kontraktowa Square west of the Hostynyj Dwir in the historic Podil district . The Pyrohoschtscha Church owes its name to a Byzantine icon that was formerly preserved in the church and named after the Greek word “pirgotis” (tower).
history
middle Ages
The previous church was the main church of the Kievan Rus in Podil after it was built between 1131 and 1136 . In 1240 it was destroyed during the Mongol invasion of the Rus . After being rebuilt in the 15th century, it was consecrated again on March 30, 1474, but was damaged and looted again in 1482 by the Tatars under Meñli I. Giray .
Modern times
The Italian architect Sebastiano Brachi reconstructed the church between 1613 and 1614. In the first half of the 17th century it was the Metropolitan Church of the Orthodox. Further fires in 1651 and 1718 led to renewed renovation work. In the years 1752 to 1772 the church was rebuilt in the style of the Ukrainian Baroque and in 1770 a five-storey bell tower was built according to plans by the architect Ivan Grigorowitsch-Barski . A minor fire in 1808 and the major fire in Podil in 1811 led to renovation work with classical elements by the Kiev-based architect Andrei Melenski . The bell tower was rebuilt in Empire style in 1835 .
20th century
In 1935 the church was demolished by the Bolsheviks and, after archaeological excavations from the mid-1970s, rebuilt in the Byzantine style from 1997 to 1998 according to the descriptions of the church from the 12th century .
Web links
- Church Official Website (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Building history of the church ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; last accessed on April 18, 2014 (Ukrainian)
- ^ A b Günther Schäfer: Kiev: Tours through the metropolis on the Dnepr . In: City guide (= Trescher series of trips ). 3. Edition. Trescher Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89794-181-6 , pp. 89 ([ limited preview in Google Book search]).
- ↑ Pyrohoschtscha Church on Kiev Encyclopedia ; last accessed on April 17, 2014 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Pyrohoschtscha Church on Oldkyiv.org ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; last accessed on April 17, 2014 (Ukrainian)
