Cherkasy Regional State Administration to “save from destruction” an abandoned church

The Cherkasy Regional State Administration is going to “save from destruction” an ancient abandoned church in the village of Kobrynove in honor of the Three Saints. According to the regional authorities, the dilapidated religious building will be “saved” by adding the building to the register of architectural monuments of local significance. This was reported by the press service of the Cherkasy Regional Prosecutor’s Office.

It is reported that the Cherkasy Regional Prosecutor’s Office filed a lawsuit in court to produce accounting documents for the church in honor of the Three Saints in the village of Kobrynove, Talniv district, and to submit a proposal to the Department of Culture and Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Cherkasy Regional State Administration to include the church in the register of immovable monuments of Ukraine. The court granted the prosecutor’s claim.

The stone church of the Three Saints was built in 1857 at the expense of the Polish aristocrat Sofia Potocka, the wife of Arthur-Stanislav Potocki. Later, the aristocrat transferred the church to the villagers. According to the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, the stone church of the Three Saints – Patriarchs Alexander, John, and Paul – has historical and cultural value due to its rare three-dimensional spatial solution in the form of a basilica crowned with a four-tower bell tower on the western façade. The facades are designed in the stylistic forms of late classicism.