Attractions of Rivne region

The Holy Intercession Cathedral in the city of Rivne is the main temple of the Rivne Diocese of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The foundation stone of the building was laid in 1990 by Patriarch Mstyslav. The completion of construction and the consecration of the cathedral by Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv took place in 2001.

The Holy Intercession Cathedral is one of the highest churches in Ukraine - its height is 55 meters. The cathedral was built in the Ukrainian style. The central dome, symbolizing Jesus Christ, is surrounded by 12 smaller apostle domes.

The wooden Holy Intercession Church in Obariv was built in 1781. A bell tower was built nearby at the same time.

The walls of the temple and the bell tower were originally lined with vertical boards. Currently, the temple is lined with clapboard, a brick extension was made to it, as a result of which the architectural monument has lost its authentic appearance.

It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Church of the Holy Intercession in Shubkiv was founded in 1770 by the owner of the village, Yevheniya Shenshyna, on the site of the old wooden Saint Nicolas Church, which was moved to the cemetery.

After Shenshyna's death, the construction of the church was completed by her brother, Admiral Dmytro Arsenyev. Icons for the church were painted by the artist Vasylyev. A four-tier bell tower was built separately from the temple. There was a clock with chimes.

The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Shubkiv was considered one of the best in the Volyn province. Currently reconstructed.

The wooden Church of the Holy Intercession was built in the village of Svitanok in the 18th century.

The temple is one-story, wooden, three-log, with a three-tier bell tower on the western facade. In plan, it consists of a square nave, a nave and a faceted pentagonal apse. The log cabin of the nave is higher than the other volumes, covered with a truncated tent, finished with a gable. The nave has no window openings - its space is illuminated by four large rectangular octagonal windows. Babinets opens into the nave with a simple multifaceted arch-cut. The log cabins are made of pine logs, placed on a stone foundation, sheathed vertically with fasteners.

The Holy Resurrection Cathedral was built in the 19th century on the donation of Emperor Oleksandr III on the site of the church that burned down in 1881. The most notable architectural landmark of the Rivne.

During the Soviet rule, the museum of atheism was located here. With the beginning of democratic transformations, the religious building was returned to the Orthodox community of the city. Currently, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine conducts services in the upper church of the Holy Resurrection Cathedral, and the community of the Russian Orthodox Church operates in the lower church.

The Holy Resurrection Church in Ostroh was built in 1910 on Zarichchya.

The history of the church dates back to the 16th century, until 1903 it was made of wood. The new stone church was built in the Rus-Byzantine style. A 17th century burial was discovered under the altar part.

The wooden Holy Transfiguration Church in Marynyn near Hubkiv was built in 1801 on the site of the ancient Marynyn monastery (XVI century).

The bell tower was built in 1882.

The Transfiguration Church is an architectural monument of national significance.

The wooden Holy Transfiguration Church in Tuchyn was built in 1730.

The three-log temple stands on a stone foundation. Unlike most of the other Volyn wooden churches, Transfiguration church has a more developed exterior three-dimensional plastic.

The wooden Holy Trinity Church in Sarny is one of the oldest monuments of the wooden architecture of Polissya.

The church was built in the village of Dorotychy in 1725 at the expense of landowner Antoniy Prushynsky.

Initially, the Trinity Church had two baths, but later, thanks to the efforts of the abbot Father Ioann, a third one was built above the bell tower. In the same year, a house was built for the priest, which is still standing near the church. There is only one throne in the temple - in honor of the Holy Trinity.

The Holy Trinity Church in Horynhrad Pershyi is located on a hill in a picturesque place above the Horyn River.

It was built in 1812-1816 at the expense of Prince Havryl Svyatopolk-Chetvertynskyi and parishioners of the village. The church has three thrones: the main one is Holy Trinity, the northern one is in the name of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos and the southern one is in the name of Nicholas the Wonderworker.

In 1883, a wooden belfry was built.

Even in Soviet times, the Trinity Church always remained active.

At the foot of the hill is a holy spring.

The Dominican monastery in Nevirkiv was founded in 1698. There was a wooden temple with it.

In 1807, Yan Kazimezh Stetskyi from nearby Velyki Mezhyrichi built a majestic stone church in the style of classicism (there is an inscription above the entrance to confirm this).

In 1832, after the dissolution of the Dominican monastery, the Church of the Holy Trinity became a parish church.

Now - in a pitiful state.

For centuries, the Holy Trinity Convent in Korets was considered a spiritual fortress of Orthodoxy in Volyn.

According to legend, it was founded in 1064 by Varlaam, the first abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk monastery. Twice ruined by nomads. In 1571, the monastery was revived by Prince Bohdan Koretsky as Resurrection Church. In 1620, the construction of a large monastery complex began on a new site, but Prince Samuyil Koretsky, who converted to Catholicism, gave the new church and cell buildings to the Franciscan nuns. In the 19th century, the Catholics were expelled, and the church was rebuilt into the Trinity Cathedral in the Byzantine style. At the beginning of the 20th century, the warm John the Forerunner church and the belfry over the gate appeared.

During the Soviet rule, the monastery remained the only active nunnery in Ukraine.

The main shrine is the miraculous Korets icon of the Mother of God "Handcuffs of Sinners". On the territory is the grave of Anna Andro de Langeron, born Olenina, to whom Pushkin offered his hand and heart, dedicating to her the poem "I loved you..." after her refusal.

In the garden - an original beehive in the form of a monastery.

A special permit is required for photography on the territory.

Canonically, it reports directly to the Moscow Patriarch Kirill and is not part of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate - the owner of the monastery is the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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.

The Saint Nicholas Horodok Convent was founded in the 16th century, when Princess Anastasiya Vilshanska donated her Horodok estate with a castle on an island in the middle of the Ustya River to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

During the time of Ruina, when Ukraine was divided between Poland and Russia, the monastery passed to the Greek Catholics and became the residence of bishops. In 1740, the bishop of Kamyanets, Atanasiy Sheptytskyi, built a stone church of Saint Nicholas of Myrlikiya on the island. The stone body of the cells, which adjoins the church from the south, is dated to the same period.

After the annexation of Volhynia to the Russian Empire, the new owner of the estate, Count Esterhazi, rebuilt the cell block into a manor palace in the style of classicism and planted a park on the island. At the end of the 19th century, Baron Feodor fon Shteynhel built three new buildings to the northeast of the church and placed the first local history museum in Volyn in one of them.

During World War II, the palace housed a military hospital, then a regional tuberculosis sanatorium. In 1991, the complex of cells was transferred to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, which revived the Saint Nicholas Horodok Women's Monastery. At the same time, the Church of Saint Nicholas belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Hoshcha Orthodox Monastery was founded in 1639 at the Saint Michael's Church, which, according to the protective plaque, was built in Hoshcha in 1632.

The founder of the monastery was Rehina Solomyretska-Hoyska, who inherited Hoshcha from her brother Roman Hoysky. Soon, a relative of Metropolitan Petro Mohyla of Solomyretska transferred here from Vinnytsia a branch of the Kyiv-Mohylyanska Orthodox School, whose rector was Innokenty Hisel. The monastery and the school were helped in every possible way by the champion of Orthodoxy, the Ukrainian nobleman Adam Kysil, who owned the Hoshcha house since 1642. Soon, the Michael Church and the monastery passed to the Greek Catholics, but in 1833 they were finally returned to the Orthodox.

Each time the temple was rebuilt, but did not lose its distinctive features. In particular, the window openings have preserved their original slightly arrowed contours - echoes of Gothic architecture. The building acquired its modern appearance as a result of reconstruction in 1888. The warm Saint Nicholas Church was built next to it with a cell building attached to it.

During the Soviet rule, the premises were used for economic purposes. At present, the restored churches are part of the complex of the Saint-Intercession Hoshcha women's monastery.