Church of St. Paraskebas
| Pyatnytska Church П'ятницька церква |
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| Basic information | |
| Location | Chernihiv, Ukraine |
| Affiliation | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| District | Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate |
| Country | Ukraine, Russian Empire, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| Architectural description | |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Architectural style | Ukrainian Baroque |
| Completed | the end of the 12th century – beginning of the 13th century |
Pyatnytska (St. Paraskeva) church (Ukrainian: П'ятницька (святої Параскеви) церква) is a functioning church in Chernihiv, Ukraine.
Pyatnytska church was built at the end of the 12th century – beginning of the 13th century at Chernihiv public sale area. It is a four-pillar, one-dome, square church.
It differed from other Chernihiv churches by completion and decoration of the facades with all types of architectural ornaments and by composition of arches under the drum.
It was restored in 1670 and 1690s by costs of Chernihiv colonel V.Dunyn-Borkovskyi in the Ukrainian baroque style.
In the 17th - 18th centuries there was a nunnery in the church, which was burned out in 1750.
In 1820s a two-storeyed belfry (the architect is A.Kartashevskyi) was built, which was dismantled in 1962.
In 1943 the church was destroyed.
It was restored in 1962 according to the project of Petro Baranovskyi in somewhat changed style similar to Russian churches (in particular the dome).
The fate of this monument is unusual. A small Pyatnytska church stood on the public sale area of Chernigiv (Paraskeva Pyatnytsia has been long since considered as a trade patron saint). High dome, numerous stucco moulding, elegant proportions of the church – all these features undoubtedly gave grounds to attribute the building to Ukrainian baroque style of the 17th - 18th centuries. The only unusual feature was its centric projection composition. Researchers asserted that the forms of an ancient Rus building were hidden under the baroque clothes.
In 1943 a soviet bomb hit the building. The prominent Soviet researcher of ancient Rus architecture P.Baranovskyi arrived at Chernihiv in December 1943. It was me who happened to accompany him and take part in inspections of Chernigiv buildings. The picture which revealed in front of us was terrible: only ruins remained of Pyatnitska church, rising lonely above the covered with snow wasted grounds of the city destroyed by the fascist invaders. The investigation of the monument gave unexpected results. The church did not resemble all the known ancient Rus buildings. Everything attested that this monument was of a new architectural style which was formed in Rus at the end of the 12th century, at the time of «The Word to the Honour of Prince’s Igor Regiment».
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