Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Vorokhta


Location:
Vorokhta village, Yaremche City Coucil
GPS coordinates: 48.28388596 24.57124519

 

The temple is located on a steep slope of a picturesque hill, in the northern part of the village, above the river Prut valley. There are several dates of most probable Church construction - 1615, 1654-1657, 18th century. Probably the Church was built at the beginning of the 17th century in the Yablunytsia village, and in 1780 was removed to Vorokhta.

Despite of more than two hundred years of temple history, its original composition has remained intact until today. The uniqueness of the temple - it was built without a single nail.

The building of the temple, as is common to the Hutsul School, is cruciform in plan, with one centrally located top. Four naves are adjacent to the spacious, high and well-lit quadrangle, they noticeably inferior in height and have a rectangular, elongated in the longitudinal direction shape. Almost equal shoulders of extensive cross are smaller in height from the central section and they end with gable roofs with frontons and small domes with crosses above the sidewalls.

Thanks to artistic tools, perfect proportion, good location and elevated stone base, an interior space of the Сhurch, despite of its modest size, impresses with its solemnity, especially comparing with similar squatty church buildings. Church porch is mounted with figurative carriers - like an umbrella, visually creates a harmonious transition from the ground to the vertical walls and the building completion. Walls are leaning over to the middle, again confirming the historic antiquity of the temple.

19th century wall murals are preserved in the interior. Church services were revived in an independence times, thanks to the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church studite monks from Dora village.

The Church is one of the most expressive and perfect examples of the Hutsulshchyna wooden temple construction. In 1979, the temple was restored, but despite stream of time, the Church remains wooden, giving it rarity amid above other old temples, covered with metal sheets or ondulin.

An architectural monument of national significance.

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