A piece of the Carpathians in Kyiv
If
you have to be in the picturesque suburb of Kyiv near Zhitomir highway
in the village Hurivschyna take time and look at the territory of the
temple complex of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kiev Patriarchate, is
dedicated to St. Demetrios the Great Thessalonica.
You'll
be amazed at the beauty of a wooden house, Overgate Belfry, arbors of
the wells, and Sunday school refectory, consolidated in the same style
designed by the talented architect Oleg Sleptsov. Carpathian motif is everywhere, and Smerekova wood keeps even the smell of mountain land.
...
The conversation with the temple priest Archpriest Bohdan Tymoshenko
became clear that this is only the beginning of extensive
transformation of the formerly neglected skirt. The
goal is to equip a small picturesque lake, among them reducing the
grotto, and source water from which protikatyme ethnographic territory
of the complex, make as Cross.
On the idea of the complex told the chairman of the parish council house deputies of Ukraine Volodymyr Bondarenko. "I
very like the Carpathians, ten years with his family rested there,
traveling from Sniatyn to Sheshory to Synevyr Lake and Transcarpathian
Perechyn - explains Mr. Bondarenko. - Back in those years I dreamed of playing at least parts of this beautiful land near Kyiv.
Dream
a reality twenty years later and in the temple complex there was a real
hutsul's house, moved from the mountains to Verkhovyna carefully
restored and installed in Kyiv ...
And next is almost complete reproduction of the house from Poltava, which was built in 1888. In
a short time - and will close neighbor of the Black Sea, Ukrainian
steppes and Polesie, that is housing all the major regions of Ukraine.
But
water is strumenityme of the Cross, more protikatyme hut near Poltava,
vpadatyme the pond, and stream flow from it called Horol. Then perellyetsya in stony brook, which houses about gutsulskoy be referred River. This unity in holy water to symbolize the unity of Ukraine.
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