Attractions of Chernivtsi region

The wooden church of Saint Elijah is located in the center of Shepit village. It was built in 1898 on the site of the old Assumption Church, erected in 1763 in honor of the 60th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Frants Yosyf.

The Church of Saint Elijah in Shepit is a successful combination of the traditional architecture of a single-domed church characteristic of Bukovyna and the modern architecture prevailing at the end of the 19th century. The architectural dominant is a massive dome in the form of a flattened bulb. The steep roofs above the narthex and the altar are finished with pointed ridges. A characteristic detail is small arrow windows with multi-colored glass.

The temple houses the imperial throne, which, during the collapse of the Austrian Empire in 1918, was not taken away from Vienna and left in Shepit.

The Church of Saint George is located in the center of Novoselytsia.

It was built in 1858 on the site of an old wooden temple known since the 15th century.

Saint George's Church in Storozhynets was founded in 1829 and became the first large church in the city.

In its current form, it was rebuilt in 1888 at the expense of Kateryna Garste - the wife of Mykola Flondor.

Currently, the Saint George Church belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

An archaic temple of defensive type, one of the oldest buildings on the territory of Bukovyna.

The Saint Illya Church was built in Toporivtsi in 1560 by the governor Myron Barnovsky. During the Turkish rule, the building was actively used as a fortress. It has thick walls without windows, loopholes are placed around the perimeter at the level of the roof, and a battle tier is hidden under the shingle roof. A square stone two-story bell tower was the main entrance to the temple grounds.

Currently, the Saint Illya Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, so local residents call it "Ukrainian".

The wooden church of Saint John Suchavskyi is located on a low hill in the center of Vyzhenka. It was built in 1792 and consecrated in honor of the most revered saint in Bukovyna.

According to legend, in ancient times there was a chapel here, dedicated to the victory of the Bukovyna residents over the hordes of Khan Batiy. The three-log temple of the transitional type from "house" to "dome" is recognized as a masterpiece of the Bukovyna school of wooden architecture and is protected by the state as an architectural monument of national importance.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the church of John Suchavsky underwent reconstruction: small rooms were added to the apse and nave, and the roof was raised. During the last restoration, the shingle roof was replaced with a metal one, as a result of which the temple partially lost its authentic appearance.

The one-nave stone church of Saint John the Theologian without a dome was built in the 19th century as the ancestral burial place of the Counts of Kantakuzyn, who owned the village.

Part of the relics of the holy great martyr and healer Panteleymon, brought from Mount Athos by Count Oleksandr Kantakuzyn, who is considered a descendant of the Byzantine emperor Ioann VI Kantakuzyn, is preserved here. The box with relics was miraculously preserved during Soviet times, and now it is the main relic of the temple.

The original Orthodox Church of Saint Michael's in Vyzhnytsia is distinguished by its architecture in the Baroque style, uncharacteristic of Bukovyna churches.

Saint Michael's Church was built in 1924 by the architect Henrikh von Kosovskyi and originally had other domes. Its current appearance is the result of reconstruction after a fire that occurred in 1961 as a result of a lightning strike. The baths destroyed by fire were later restored in the Old Believer style - low and as if flattened.

Saint Michael's Church is an architectural monument of local importance. Belongs to the religious community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The "new" Rus (that is, Ruthenian - Ukrainian) church of Saint Nicholas was built by architects Valter Shtyubkhen-Kirkhner, Yozef Lener and Virdzhyl Ionesku, modeled on the masterpiece of Romanian medieval architecture - the mid-14th century royal church in Kurtya-de-Ardzhesh.

It is nicknamed the "drunken church" for its original "twisted" baths.

During Soviet times, the Nicholas Church remained active (it was the cathedral and the residence of the bishop), thanks to which the original interior was preserved.

It is now used by parishioners of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Saint Nicholas Church is located in the center of Putyla, next to the museum-manor of Yuriy Fedkovych, who at one time allocated land and money for its construction.

It is a typical Bukovyna three-tiered church. The wooden church has a rectangular vestibule, a square nave and a faceted altar, covered by three almost identical tops, the middle of which is slightly higher and more slender than the others. On both sides of the nave, faceted-shaped parapets are attached, which gives the temple an almost cruciform appearance.

The two-tiered belfry, the walls of which are also covered with wood, and the top of the tent with sheet metal, harmoniously complements the church and together with it forms a whole temple architectural ensemble.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas was built at the beginning of the 20th century at the village cemetery of Vyzhenka.

The three-domed temple is made in the Hutsul style. Architectural details are hidden under a modern sheet metal coating.

Nearby is a stone chapel under a shingled roof, erected in honor of the abolition of serfdom in the Austrian Empire in 1848. Ancient inscriptions on the walls of the chapel tell about the difficult life of the Ukrainian peasantry under the oppression of serfdom.

The wooden church of Saint Paraskeva in Ust-Putyla was built in 1881.

It belongs to the type of three-part, three-headed temple common in the Bukovyna Carpathians. The monument embodies all the characteristic features of this type: faceted nave and apse and rectangular nave; widely spaced, almost equal in height tent domes with a pronounced interception at the base, sheathed with shingles, with a slope inward, girdled by a shallow belting of the wall. The folds of the tops in the interior contribute to the vertical opening of the space. The entire massive volume of log cabins turns into domes of heads, repeating the contours of the mountains surrounding the valley.

The belfry is located to the west of the church, vertically sheathed with tesserae, eight on four, with a tent ending.

The Monastery of Saint Righteous Anna was founded in Vashkivtsi in 1993 on Mount Anna, revered by the people.

According to oral traditions, there was once a women's monastery here, founded in honor of the brave and rebellious girl Anna, who escaped Turkish dishonor on the mountain. A healing spring appeared at this place. In the middle of the 19th century, the first wooden temple was built, which burned down at the beginning of the 20th century.

After Ukraine gained its independence, the construction of the Saint Anne's Monastery began. The Cathedral of Saint Anna with the lower church of the Great Martyrs of the Maccabees, cells, utility buildings was built.

The Church of Saint Spyridon in Hertsa is a typical church of the Bukovyna architectural school.

Founded in 1807.

The church is brightly painted both outside and inside.

The Church of the Saints Apostles Peter and Paul in Vyzhnytsia was built in 1876 on the site of an old wooden church founded in 1812 by Polish immigrants.

The new stone church was built at the expense of the tycoon of Armenian origin Hryhoriy Ayvas.

In 1930, the wedding ceremony of Yuriy Fedkovych's parents took place in the Peter and Paul Church - the noblewoman Anna Dashkevycheva and the famous German climatologist Adalbert Hordynskyi-Fedkovych.

In 1946, after the arrival of Soviet power, the Peter and Paul Church was closed.

In the early 1990s, after Ukraine gained independence, the church was returned to the Roman Catholic community of Vyzhnytsia.

The wooden church of Saint Nicholas is the oldest building in Chernivtsi (restored after a fire in 1992). An architectural monument of national importance.

It is made in the typical Bukovyna log cabin (so-called cottage) style.

The Saint Nicholas Church is active and belongs to the parish of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.