The village of Mezhyrich is located on the river Viliya is 2 km southeast of Ostroh.
Founded in the XIV century. on the site of an ancient Rus settlement.
Prince Fedir Ostrozkyi founded the defensive Trinity Monastery here, which, after repeated reconstructions, is now an outstanding architectural ensemble, in which the styles of Baroque, Renaissance, Gothic and Old Rus architecture are organically mixed. Around there are fragments of the defensive ramparts of the ancient city, the ruins of the Zaslavskyi gates and a large ancient stove, near which, according to legend, the guards of the Mezhyrich monastery were warming themselves.
Село Межиріч розташоване на річці Вілія в 2 кілометрах на південний схід від Острога.
Засноване в XIV сторіччі на місці давньоруського городища.
Князь Федір Острозький заклав тут оборонний Троїцький монастир, який після неодноразових перебудов тепер є видатним архітектурним ансамблем, в якому органічно змішалися стилі бароко, ренесанс, готика та давньоруського зодчества. Навколо розташовані фрагменти оборонних валів стародавнього міста, руїни Заславських воріт і велика старовинна піч, у якій, за легендою, грілися охоронці Межиріцького монастиря.
Holy Trinity Monastery-Fortress
Temple , Architecture
The outstanding architectural ensemble of the defensive Holy Trinity Monastery in Mezhyrich has been decorating the cape formed by the confluence of the Viliya and Svitenka rivers for six centuries.
This monument of the Volyn school of architecture combines the traditions of ancient Rus constructive techniques with elements of Gothic-Renaissance architecture of the XV-XVII centuries.
According to legend, the Orthodox monastery at this place was founded by Kyiv-Pechersk monks during the Mongol-Tatar invasion. In the 15th century, Prince Kostyantyn Ostrozky began the construction of a wooden castle with the Trinity Church in the center of the courtyard, which became the basis of a fortified monastery. His descendants soon built a stone temple in ancient Rus forms.
At the beginning of the 17th century, the monastery came under the control of the Catholic order of Franciscans, who added Gothic and Renaissance decor to the temple, added two two-story cell buildings with paired round towers at the corners, and also surrounded the complex with stone fortress walls with crenellated defensive towers in the Renaissance style. All this gave the monastery the appearance of an elegant medieval castle.
In the middle of the 19th century, the complex was destroyed by fire, it remained abandoned for a long time.
Now the monastery has been handed over to the Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. The Mezhyrich icon of the Mother of God "Zhyttiepodavnytsia" (XVI century) crowned by Catholics is kept here - the ancestral icon of the princes of Ostroh, as well as the miraculous icon of Anthony the Great.
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