Piatnytska Church, Chernihiv
church building in Chernihiv, Ukraine
Piatnytska (St. Paraskeva) Сhurch (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 Ukrainian Baroque style.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. The small Piatnytska Church stood on the public sale area of Chernihiv (Paraskeva Piatnytsia has been long since considered as the trade patron saint). High dome, numerous stucco moulding, elegant proportions of the church – all these features undoubtedly gave grounds to attribute the building to Ukrainian baroque style of the 17th–18th centuries. The only unusual feature was its centric projection composition.
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