Church of St. John the Baptist, Lehnovka
From centuries past to the present preserved many rural churches that adorn the Ukrainian villages, settlements and small towns. One of these is the Church of St. John the Baptist in the village Lehnivka Baryshevskoho area.
St. John the Baptist Church history
- Church of St. John the Baptist was built with funds peasants in 1877. Some sources indicated in 1896, but it is a year of building wooden bunk bell tower, which stands nearby.
- The temple is preserved in good condition, which visitors can observe today. But while building served as a warehouse for agriculture farm before the Great Patriotic War. However, from wartime service in 1942 and has recovered continued.
- The second half of the last century local church spiritually enriched dozen nearby villages, where churches were closed.
- On holidays and Sundays to church peasants come to take part in the main worship - the sacrament of the Eucharist. Temple took generations, who received Holy Baptism, blessed the marriage and lifelong came for communion with God.
Architecture Church
Temple in Lehnivtsi belongs to a class of typical places of Orthodox worship. Four small domes decorated with wooden carvings, gravitate to the front. Similar five-domed cruciform church malorozpovsyudzheni as sophisticated architecture.
The interior of the Church of St. John the Baptist attracts a unique five-tier iconostasis, which is a contemporary building. Chandelier lights blazing quiet old icon-lamps, which creates incomparable atmosphere lighting in the temple.
Expressive feature of such buildings as the church of John the Baptist was the simplicity, elegance, desire for heaven, and internal neperevershenist.
How to get there
The temple is located in the village Lehnivka outside the cornea. The village is located in Baryshevskomu district of Kyiv region. To reach best the city Berezan, located about 15 km to the north.
