Vvedenska Church, Chernihiv
church building in Chernihiv, Ukraine
The Vvedenska Church, or Church of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary (Ukrainian: Введенська трапезна церква, romanized: Vvedenska trapezna tserkva), is an Eastern Orthodox Church refectory church that is part of the Trinity Monastery in Chernihiv, Ukraine. Built in 1677–1679, before the construction of the main building of this ensemble – the Trinity Cathedral. The only two-nave church preserved in left-bank Ukraine.
Description
The column-free refectory is a true masterpiece of the national architectural style. The structure of the refectory is one of the oldest in the group of monuments of the 17th century. The influence of this structure on a number of other monuments is undoubted. Its planning structure is repeated in the refectory of the Michael Monastery in Kyiv. In other cases, there are minor differences, for example, in the refectory of the Vydubychi Monastery. But the general scheme is preserved here: the church building is adjoined from the west by a dining hall, and auxiliary rooms for cooking and storing food are adjacent to it.
The same scheme is used in the column-free refectories of the Hamaliivka, Hustynia and other monastery ensembles.
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