Attractions of Plishyvets

The Church of the Holy Intercession in the village of Plishyvets in the Poltava region is considered one of the most multi-domed in Ukraine.

Before her, there was an ordinary three-headed wooden temple in Plishyvets, but by the end of the 19th century it had completely fallen into disrepair. For help in building a new church, local residents turned to their countryman, the rector of the moscow seminary, Archimandrite Parthenius, who managed to raise funds for the construction of a large stone church.

At the bishop's request, the famous architect Oleksandr Kuznetsov created a project of the church in the Cossack Baroque style - a copy of the Trinity Cathedral in Novomoskovsk. The nine-headed Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, 45 meters high, is made in the shape of a cross.

The gilded 6-tiered iconostasis about 10 meters high, made in a moscow icon-painting workshop, was lost during the Soviet era, the bell tower was blown up in 1934, but the church itself survived even after it was hit by 7 shells during the Second World War.

Currently, the Holy Intercession Church in Plishyvets belongs to the UOC of the moscow Patriarchate, and restoration is underway.