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  1. History

  2. Architecture

  3. Interesting facts

  4. References

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Holy Presentation Church (ukr. Свято-Введенська церква, rus. Свято-Введенская церковь) is an Orthodox church in the Beryslav City. The first name is the Resurrection Church. It is the monument of the XVIII century built in 1725 of oak; the roof is made of iron. In 1784, the Church was transported by the Cossacks along the Dnipro River from the Zaporizhian Perevolochna fortress to Beryslav. From 1939 to 1941, the Church was closed, and only by a miracle it survived; someone wanted to disassemble it for firewood. Today, the religious building belongs to the UOC community.

History

In 1725, the Сhurch was built as a military church in the Cossack fortress Perevolochna in Poltava province (guberniia) (now Dnipro Region), on the border of Zaporizhian Sich. It was located 350 kilometers from the place where it is now.

At the beginning of the XV century, these lands (now Beryslav Raion) were the southern borders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. There was a custom known as Vitovtova. There was a Dnipro River ferry – Tavanskyi pereviz, which got its name from the Tavan Island. In the XVI century, these lands were captured by The Crimean Khanate, and instead of the custom built the fortress Kyzy-Kermen ("Maiden castle"), which became an obstacle for light ships (called "chaika") of Zaporizhian Cossacks in the lower reach of the Dnipro River and the Black Sea. In 1689, during the Crimean campaign, the Russian army under the command of knyaz N. Golitsyn unsuccessfully tried to capture the fortress. Only in 1695, after a long siege by Russian troops, together with Zaporizhian Cossacks, managed to capture Kyzy-Kermen and these lands passed to the Russian Empire.

In 1784, the Cossacks rafted the Church over the Dnipro River to Kyzy-Kermen, which in the same year received the status of the city and was named Beryslav. According to legend, on the raft on which the Church was transported, there was an inscription: "take and glorify" (“bery i slav”). The name of the city comes from that phrase.

"At that time by decree of Empress Catherine II began settling in the South of Ukraine, and people from Poltava took with them this shrine - said priest Alexander. - There are two versions of its delivering. According to the first, the whole Church was rafted along the Dnipro River, but in that case it would have remained only chips. Therefore, the second version is more reliable, according to which the Church was first took apart, then all parts were numbered, rafted, and then they were reassembled without a single nail on a new place…"

There is a legend among the citizens of Beryslav that the Holy Presentation Church was washed away by the spring flood and sailed down the river straight to the city.

This is a rare case in the history of Ukrainian architecture, but the oldest building of the city is older than Beryslav itself by more than half a century.

After delivery, the Church was put in the historic center of the city, on the place of the current People’s Hall (House of Culture), and consecrated in honor of the Resurrection of Christ (Easter). In 1853, at the midst of the Crimean war, for an unknown reason, the Church was moved outside of Beryslav – to the place where the Presentation cemetery was founded. The Church itself was re-consecrated in honor of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. At the former place was built a majestic Church, which was later demolished by the Soviet regime.

In the first half of the XX century the Holy Presentation Church was closed, like all other Orthodox shrines. Right before the beginning of the Second World War, there was even a proposal to disassemble it for firewood and burn it: trees were very rare in the steppe areas.

"But God kept this Holy place," said the priest, "and spiritual life in the Church was renewed only with the arrival of the Germans in 1941. They miraculously found the surviving priest Daniil, who had a broken spine, and literally forced him to resume church service."

Now Holy Presentation Church is a protected architectural monument of the XVIII century.

Architecture

The Сhurch was built in the style typical for folk architecture. It is one of the few extant examples of wooden architecture of Zaporizhian Cossacks.

The Сhurch belongs to the cross-domed type, has a longitudinal-axial composition; the main volume – octagonal, apse – pentagonal. To the main volume from the North, South and West are attached faceted porches.

The Сhurch is single-domed, crowned with a strange, similar to the Tatar, polygonal spherical dome with a small onion dome. The Сhurch is painted in bright blue with green inserts. It is cut down from oak logs, sheathed with boards vertically, put on a stone Foundation, covered with iron.

The central window above the main entrance has a cross like shape. The concrete steps lead to the main door. The whole height of the Сhurch is 17 meters.

Interesting facts

  • In 1939 (during the closing of the Сhurch), the priest distributed all the Сhurch utensils to the parishioners for storage "until better times".
  • In 1947, lightning struck the dome of a wooden church and it caught fire. There was not any water supply in the city, and to extinguish the fire, people carried water in buckets straight from the Dnipro River.
  • There are several unique icons of the XVIII century, an ancient wooden altar cross, presented by the Cossacks, and the old printed Gospels (1697) in the Church.

References

  1. Свято-Введенская церковь(Берислав)
  2. [https://spzh.news/ru/istorija-i-kulytrua/29228-tserkov-vvedeniya-vo-khram-presvyatoy-bogoroditsy-v-gorode-berislav-1726.html Церковь Введения во храм Пресвятой Богородицы в городе Берислав(1726)]
  3. [https://zruchno.travel/ObjectEntity/ObjectEntity?lang=ru&idCrm=4067e74c-5f1c-dfc5-7f9d-588083335f8a.html Введенская церковь]
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