The village of Komendantivka is located in the valley of the Sukha Kobelyachka River between Kobeliaky and Kremenchuk.
It has been known since the 18th century, when the village belonged to Prince Turkestanov, who was popularly called "commandant" (hence the name of the village).
At the end of the 18th Komendantivka, Captain Oleksandr Bilevych (senior) received the commandant's dowry as a dowry for the daughter of the "commandant" Turkestanov, and since then the village has been owned by the Bilevych family for more than a century. In 1864-1877, the naval officer Oleksandr Bilevych (junior), who visited Egypt, built an ancestral tomb in the shape of an Egyptian pyramid in Komendantivka - one of the three pyramid temples on the territory of Ukraine (th ...
The village of Komendantivka is located in the valley of the Sukha Kobelyachka River between Kobeliaky and Kremenchuk.
It has been known since the 18th century, when the village belonged to Prince Turkestanov, who was popularly called "commandant" (hence the name of the village).
At the end of the 18th Komendantivka, Captain Oleksandr Bilevych (senior) received the commandant's dowry as a dowry for the daughter of the "commandant" Turkestanov, and since then the village has been owned by the Bilevych family for more than a century. In 1864-1877, the naval officer Oleksandr Bilevych (junior), who visited Egypt, built an ancestral tomb in the shape of an Egyptian pyramid in Komendantivka - one of the three pyramid temples on the territory of Ukraine (the other two are the Berezova Rudka Pyramid and the Sevastopol Church of Saint Nicholas). In 1885, the tomb was consecrated as the Orthodox Sophia Church. The burial place of the Bilevychs was destroyed in the middle of the 20th century.
Село Комендантівка розташоване в долині річки Суха Кобелячка між Кобеляками та Кременчуком.
Відоме з XVIII сторіччя, коли село належало князю Туркестанову, якого в народі називали "комендантом" (звідси і назва села).
В кінці XVIII Комендантівку отримав в придане за донькою "коменданта" Туркестанова ротмістр Олександр Білевич (старший), і відтоді село понад століття було у власності роду Білевичів. В 1864-1877 роках морський офіцер Олександр Білевич (молодший), що побував в Єгипті, спорудив в Комендантівці родову усипальницю в формі єгипетської піраміди - однин з трьох храмів-пірамід на території України (два інших: Березоворудська піраміда та севастопольський храм Святого Миколая). В 1885 році усипальниця було освячено як православну Софіївську церкву. По ...
Село Комендантівка розташоване в долині річки Суха Кобелячка між Кобеляками та Кременчуком.
Відоме з XVIII сторіччя, коли село належало князю Туркестанову, якого в народі називали "комендантом" (звідси і назва села).
В кінці XVIII Комендантівку отримав в придане за донькою "коменданта" Туркестанова ротмістр Олександр Білевич (старший), і відтоді село понад століття було у власності роду Білевичів. В 1864-1877 роках морський офіцер Олександр Білевич (молодший), що побував в Єгипті, спорудив в Комендантівці родову усипальницю в формі єгипетської піраміди - однин з трьох храмів-пірамід на території України (два інших: Березоворудська піраміда та севастопольський храм Святого Миколая). В 1885 році усипальниця було освячено як православну Софіївську церкву. Поховання Білевичів знищено в середині XX століття.
Bilevych Pyramid-Tomb
Temple , Architecture
The burial pyramid in Komendantivka, based on the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs, is a 15-meter granite tetrahedron.
Oleksandr Bilevych, an officer of the Russian fleet, who participated in the Russian-Turkish war and fought in the Balkans, being in Egypt in the early 1860s as part of a limited contingent of Russian troops, impressed by the pyramids he saw there, built a pyramid temple in 1864 in to his estate near the village of Komendantivka.
The pyramid was built from granite blocks mined in a local quarry, which were pulled up by wooden chutes with cables. Since the blocks were held together with an expensive lime mortar with the addition of cattle blood and egg whites, construction took 13 years.
The building is three-story. The underground tier consisted of three funeral chambers connected by passages. An Orthodox church with an iconostasis and an altar was located on the first above-ground level. The upper tier served as a belfry. The building was crowned with an Orthodox cross.
In 1877, Bilevych's wife Sofia was buried in the tomb, and in 1916 - the builder of the Komendantivka Pyramid, which was consecrated as the Orthodox Church of Saint Sophia, was buried.
In the middle of the 20th century, the graves of the Bilevichs were destroyed, and a fertilizer warehouse was built in the pyramid.
Currently, the service has been restored by the UOC parish of the Moscow Patriarchate, and the church is being repaired. An extension was made to it, which with its modern appearance violates the compositional integrity of the architectural monument.
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