Attractions of Zhytomyr region

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Anna is the oldest preserved Malyn church.

The first wooden Catholic church was built in the city in 1784 at the expense of Stanislav Kordysh. In 1869, the shrine burned down, and in 1884, through the efforts of Princess Tsetsyliya Radzyvill, a new church in the style of classicism was built in its place.

In Soviet times, it was used as one of the premises of a secondary school. In 1992, the church of Saint Anna was returned to the Catholic community of Malyn. In 2013, the major renovation of the temple began, and already in July 2017, the altar was re-consecrated.

The Dominican monastery was founded in Liubar in 1634. At the same time, Prince Stanislav Lubomyrsky built the first Dominican church.

In the middle of the 17th century, the temple was destroyed by the Cossacks during the War of Liberation. In 1752, it was rebuilt again by Frantsishek Ferdynand Lubomyrsky, it was consecrated in the name of Saints Michael and Yan Nepomuk.

In 1864, the Dominican monastery was closed, the church became a parish church. During the Soviet rule, the temple was also closed.

Today it is an active church of Saint Michael the Archangel and Saint Dominic. Restoration is underway.

The stone church of Saint George in Bilylivka was built in 1826-1832 on the site of a small, older church of the same name, which was destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars.

The temple was built in the style of classicism under the direction of the architect Vasyl Syerikov, known for his works in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

Saint George's Church is an architectural monument of local importance.

The well-preserved school building of the Saint George Basilian Monastery in Liubar was built in 1775.

It was part of the complex of Saint George's Monastery, which was founded in 1666 as a Jesuit Greek-Catholic monastery (according to other data, in 1604 as an Orthodox monastery). Since 1752, a school has been operating at the monastery, with 450 children studying in six classes. After the Jesuit order was dissolved, the monastery and school became Basilian.

The school building is in the baroque style, brick, two-story, with a figured pediment. The walls of the building are reinforced with buttresses.

The premises of the school are still used for their intended purpose - the Liubar Vocational Lyceum is located here.

The Seminary Church of Saint John of Dukla in Zhytomyr is an architectural monument of national importance.

Located close to the central square of the city.

The building in the neoclassical style was built in 1838-1842 as the church of the Lutsk-Zhytomyr Theological Seminary instead of the burned down church of the Franciscan monastery founded in 1763.

Until 1917, a theological seminary was located in the monastery building, and during the Soviet regime - the Military Commissariat.

In 1992, the church of Saint John was returned to the Franciscan fathers, consecrated in 1997. The monastery is active.

Saint Michael's Cathedral in Zhytomyr is considered an architectural landmark of the 19th century, it is one of the oldest stone religious buildings in the city.

It was built at the expense of Zhytomyr merchant Mykhaylo Khabotin, who was later buried under the altar part of the church.

The famous pianist Svyatoslav Richter was baptized here.

Until 1927, Saint Michael's Church operated as a temple of the Ukrainian autocephalous Orthodox community, then it was closed. In Soviet times, the "Znannya" society and a puppet theater were located here.

Today it is an active church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. In 1991, restoration began. There is an Orthodox Sunday school at the cathedral.

Saint Nicholas Cathedral, the main Orthodox church of Berdychiv, was built on the site of the wooden church of Saint Nicholas, which was built in 1748 by the efforts of the owner of the city, Varvara Zavish.

The church kept an ancient icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker, which was considered miraculous.

The stone temple in the late baroque (rococo) style was built and consecrated in 1908. The interior is richly decorated with paintings. In 1996, Berdychiv's Saint Nicholas Church received the status of a cathedral.

The Saint Nicholas Church in Olevsk is an architectural monument of the 16th century.

It was built in 1596 under the Nemyrych nobles, and in 1618 it was reconstructed, as evidenced by the date on the stone cross built into the western wall of the vestibule attached to the church.

The base of the building has a simple squat shape with five helmet-shaped domes, which appeared after the reconstruction in 1864. Narrow slit windows indicate the defensive character of the building. The bell tower has a similar shape.

The iconostasis is modern, the old icons have not survived. Of particular value was the icon "Our Lady of Olevsk", which was removed from the church during the Soviet regime and kept in the Kharkiv Museum.

The Five-Bath Saint Nicholas Church in Mezhyrichka is an example of Polissya wooden architecture.

Built in 1772. Church of the cross in the plan. The central log cabin is covered with an octagonal tent on a big eight. The branches of the cross are covered with plastic tents topped with bulbous heads. Nearby is a square two-story bell tower.

Centuries-old Polissya houses, painted in the traditions of these places, have also been preserved in the village.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas in the village of Soloviivka was built in 1789. In 2010, the belfry, dismantled during the Soviet regime, was restored by the efforts of the village community.

On August 20, 2020, a fire broke out in the Saint Nicholas Church, as a result of which the church burned down completely.

Two statues of the apostles Luke and Mark from this church are now in the Kyiv National Art Museum.

Currently, the reconstruction of the Saint Nicholas Church is underway.

Saint Nicholas Church at Bazarna Square in Chervone was built in 1877 at the expense of landowner Fedir Tereshchenko, other parishioners and the treasury.

The stone temple was originally five-story, but in Soviet times it was deprived of domes. Currently, only the central one has been restored.

A carved iconostasis made of Carrara marble, similar to the one in Tereshchenko's ancestral temple in Hlukhiv, has been preserved.

The church of Saint Oleksandr Nevsky was built in the village of Vilnopillia in the middle of the 19th century. During Soviet times, the temple was closed.

It is an architectural monument of local importance. Belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, banned in Ukraine.

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Stanislav Kostka was built in the city of Baranivka thanks to the efforts of the future bishop Father Stanislav Shyrokoradyuk.

The temple was consecrated in 1994, and in 1997, the house of the Franciscan novitiate was rebuilt near the Catholic shrine. The church of Saint Stanislav Kostka belongs to the Franciscan-Bernardine order (the order of Friars Minor).

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Vlas is located in the center of Andrushivka, opposite the central entrance to the park with the Tereshchenko Palace.

Since 1994, the service has been held at the cemetery, then at the house of parishioner Mariya Bila. In 2006, the first abbot, Father Yan Safinskyi, was appointed, who started the construction of a modern brick church in Andrushivka. Its construction was completed in 2010, but the arrangement and equipment of the shrine continued.

The Roman Catholic parish of Saint Wenceslas was organized in 1907 by the inhabitants of the villages of Kroshnya Cheska and Kroshnya Ruska (present-day Kroshnyansky district of Zhytomyr), mainly Czechs and Poles.

Andrii Arshenevsky allocated the land for the construction of the church. In 1908, the church of St. Wenceslas was built.

During the Soviet rule, the temple was closed, a club was placed in the church building, then a library, and since 1960 - the Zhytomyr food processing plant of the regional consumer cooperative.

The parish of Saint Wenceslas was revived in 2001 thanks to the abbot Father Ludwik Kamilewski, and in 2002 the church was returned to the faithful. The chapel and adjacent buildings were reconstructed, the roof of the main building was covered, the tower and the facade of the church were rebuilt. A commemorative sign in the form of a cross was installed on the landscaped territory of the church on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the parish.