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St Mykolai Church

St Mykolai Church

Bukovyna is a historical region in Ukraine, where a wonderful city Chernivtsi is located. You’ll be impressed with a unique St Mykholai Church, which can be found in this city on Rus’ka Street. The church was built in the style of Curtea de Argeș Monastery of C16th in Romania. Cupolas of these churches are similar.

Attention of tourists is always attracted by church’s cupolas. You’ll experience an illusion of falling because of their curved and slant shape. Such effect is attained thanks to leaning tambours with slit belfry-windows. Tambours are the cylinders on which the cupolas rest. Quality craftsmanship impresses! It is also called as a Drunk Church.

There is an old and sad legend about this church and workers who built it. Every day new problems arose: foundation cracked or something else broke. One day senior foreman had a strange dream – if a person would be sacrificed to this building, they would be able to finish the work. It was decided to do it like this. They placed a beautiful wife of one of the workers into the foundation. Thus till the morning the church was built, but it turned out that tambours were curved symbolizing suffering and pain of that woman…

The visitors will be impressed with two big bells brought from Transylvania. The bells are of 948 and 592 kg each.

Visit the church and you’ll get to know one more interesting fact, which is about an unusual locality of a sanctuary. According to ecclesiastical canons it has to be located opposite the entrance, which means – in the east. But St Mykholai Church has an entrance to Rus’ka Street, that’s why the sanctuary is located in the north. Inside of the church your attention will be captured by paintings on a background of gold, which create richness and splendour of an original interior. An interesting fact is that a contest for making an iconostasis was announced. A famous icon painter Paul Molda from Bucharest has won it.

Today you can visit divine services in St Mykholai Church, where sense of calmness and pacification will fill your soul.   

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