Sacred places of Vinnytsia region in Ukraine

The specific style of building is proper for our region, developed in the territory of Podilia and named podilskyj – the churches with three domes.

In the middle of the XVIII century, the churches got the forms typical for the style of baroque (high edifices with slender and refined proportions, plastic tops and lines).

St. Micheal’s church was built in the village of Dashev, Iljinsk district in 1764. The edifice got the typical features of as it says “the Cossack’s baroque”. In the first half of the XIX century the annexes were added to the church in a classicism style. There were the oil paintings on the dome and the walls of the church painted in the XIX-XX c.c. you can see the Podilsk’s icons of the XIX century, which affirmed that the local tradition of art linked with the religion was developed here.

The temple in a classical Podolsk’s style is situated in the village of Katashyn, Chechelnytskij district – church of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God, built in 1778 in a Ukrainian baroque style. The church was built by means of peasants and the landowner on the place where the ancient church was destroyed as years go by. The temple was built of wood and had got three domes. There was a parish school at church till 1887. You can see the ancient miracle-making icon of the Mother of God with myrrh-pouring marks that healed people. One of these marks dates back to 1757.

In 1661 in the village of Polychyntsi, Kosiatyn district,the ancient church was built - Transfiguration’s church. In 1780 it was rebuilt by F. Hoetskij. In the XVIII century it was regarded as Uniate Church and was consecrated in honour of St. Onyphrij. In 1778 the church got the plenary indulgence from Rome.

In the Vinnytsia region there are the most illustrious Roman Catholic churches and the complexes of the architectural buildings built by the famous catholic monastic order which lead an active mission. The temples were owned by the Dominicans, the Franciscans and the Jesuits.

There was the Carmelite’s monastery in the town of Bar, founded in 1616 by the village headman. The monastery was built on the place of a ruined monastery, its name hasn’t been preserved in the chronicle. During the national liberation movement of the Ukrainian people, a new monastery was also destroyed. Later the Roman Catholic church and the building of a parish school were rebuilt of wood. These buildings were injured in a fire, it happened in the XVII century. In 1701 the Dominicans started to build the monastery and the collegium. But this time it was used the bricks for building and the stone foundation was built. The building was finished in 1787. It housed the monastery of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God which existed by the beginning of the XX century. In 1908 the belfry was added to the church. The church of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God with belfry and with monastic cells has been preserved up to the present day. In 1917 the nun Jadviga Kulesha founded in the monastery the union of Benedictine nuns. Now the monastery functions.