Attractions of Holoby

Saint George's Church in Holoby is a monument of the transitional type from baroque to classicism with a traditional wooden bell tower in the forms of folk architecture of Volyn.

The church was built as a Greek-Catholic church in 1783 at the expense of magnate Lyudvik Vilha. In 1885, the tiled roof was replaced with an iron one. The church is brick, plastered, single nave, with a pentagonal apse and two towers on the western facade. The towers are two-story, finished with onion domes. Covered with a wooden ceiling in the 19th century, which replaced the original vaults.

To the southwest of Ssint. George's Church, there is a two-story wooden bell tower. The first tier is chopped, the second is frame, in the form of an open circular arcade. Shingle roof. The composition of the belfry is typical of the Volyn wooden architecture of the XVII-XVIII centuries.

The park of the Vilha tycoons manor in Holoby is located right along the Kovel - Lutsk highway.

In the 18th century, Chernihiv voivode Lyudvik Vilha built his stately residence with a park, a menagerie and a brick fence here. In the depths of the park there is a complex-shaped palace, built at the beginning of the 20th century on the site of a burned-down manor house. Only the manor gate has survived from the original buildings of the manor.

During the reconstruction of the village, the park area was cut through by a street, and the entrance gate lost its direct purpose. The gate is brick, plastered, rectangular in plan, with an archway on the first floor (laid). They are covered with a hipped roof.

Not far from the estate, on the other side of the street, there are two park sculptures of the 18th century, which are a clear example of Volyn's monumental sculpture.

The Church of Archangel Michael in Holoby was founded in 1711 (according to other sources - in 1700) by Podillya sub-starost Stefan Yaruzelskyi, completed at the expense of Yuzef Yaruzelskyi.

In 1783, Chernihiv voivode Lyudvik Vilha added two chapels to the church. 3 years later, Saint Michael's Church burned down due to a lightning strike. The same Lyudvik Vilha rebuilt it in 1793.

Initially, the one-nave building in the Baroque style received the plan of a cross after the completion of the chapels. The tempera painting of the walls and vaults was made in the 18th century by the famous artist Yuzef Prechtl.

During the First World War, the church was damaged, but in 1929-1930 of the 20th century, it was restored by the parishioners. In 1945, the Soviet authorities arranged a salt warehouse in the temple.

In 1997, the Church of Archangel Michael was returned to the Roman Catholics.