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More photos from http://www.oko.kiev.ua:

Photo from http://www.oko.kiev.ua, 2006
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Photo from http://www.oko.kiev.ua, 2006
Photo from http://www.oko.kiev.ua, 2006
Photo from http://www.oko.kiev.ua, 2006

Ostriv


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         St. Michael church, 1740

Photo from http://www.oko.kiev.ua, 2006 Photo from http://www.oko.kiev.ua, 2006

Photo from http://www.oko.kiev.ua, 2006


This very picturesque church is zested with a strange absence of the middle cupola which has evidently been lost. Now the outlines of St. Michael church resemble those of Western Ukraine's two-tower Roman-Catholic churches.

Photo from http://www.oko.kiev.ua, 2006

At the same website Artem Svyrydov provides the following comment:
"The height of the church's cupolas was diminished during one of reconstructions in the Soviet times. As a result, the upper part of the iconostasis is inclined inward.
An unchecked information says that the church was built in this place instead of an older one-cupola structure that had burnt. An inscription on the back side of the iconostasis says it was made in 1771. Mykola Zharkikh considers the unusual configuration of the church to be the result of the central cupola being demolished after a destruction. This opinion seems true.
Wooden additions to the narthex and nave appeared probably in the 19th century and brick additions to the altar part were attached in the 20th century. An inscription on the belfry door jamb says it was built in 1804 by master Shapovalenko due to the efforts of churchwarden Hryhoriy and by means of parishioners. So the belfry was most likely built not simultaneously with the church but 64 years later.

Photo from http://www.oko.kiev.ua, 2006

Upper tier of the iconostasis

Photo from http://www.oko.kiev.ua, 2006

A carved detail


Photo from http://www.oko.kiev.ua, 2006

Holy gates

Photo from http://www.oko.kiev.ua, 2006

Seemingly, this is the same bell from the photo below (1988) in which it lays in the grass.

Church. View from А1 position (Mykola Zharkikh's archive, negatives collection, № 436-10, 17.07.1988) Wooden belfry (Mykola Zharkikh's archive, negatives collection, № 436-15, 17.07.1988) Bell near belfry (Mykola Zharkikh's archive, negatives collection, № 436-20, 17.07.1988)

Photos from Mykola Zharkikh's archive, July 1988


View from south. [MTA, v. 1, p. 142]

[ПГА, т.1, с.142]: Расположена на пригорке в центре села. Деревянная на каменном фундаменте трехсрубная с невысокими боковыми приделами и притвором с пристройками по бокам апсиды трехглавая. Карниз разделяет наклонные вертикально ошалеванные стены очень высоких срубов на два яруса. В интерьере сохранились росписи XIX в. Композиция здания необычна - главы расположены лишь над восточным и западным срубами. [на думку М.Жарких, центральний верх було розібрано після якогось руйнування, можливо, під час Великої вітчизняної війни]
К юго-западу от церкви находится деревянная двухъярусная колокольня. Второй ярус ее прорезан отверстиями-голосниками. Здание является любопытным памятником украинской деревянной архитектуры Правобережья.






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