Mykolaivska Church

The Mykolaiv Church is one of the oldest examples of the Bukovyna school of folk architecture. It is an architectural monument of national importance. It was built in Chernivtsi in 1607 in the Bukovyna ("house") style. According to the architectural composition, it is a single-level building without a dome, the walls of which are made of oak beams in a log structure, and the roof is covered with clapboards and crowned with three forged crosses. There are two versions of the place where Nicholas's church was built. According to the first, during the protectorate over these lands of the Turks, it was an episcopal church and was located in the center of the city, and then it was moved to its current location. The second claims that the church stood on this site since its construction in 1607 in the Selishche housing estate near the ancient Chernivtsi. The temple was rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries. As a result of the last reconstruction, the babinets acquired a somewhat unconventional elongated pentagonal shape (the length was increased by 2.5 meters) and lost its original pyramidal top. Probably, the sacristy was completed at the same time. Initially, a wooden belfry with three bells stood near the church, and in 1868, a brick belfry was built in its place, which has survived to this day. Restorations were carried out in 1954 and after a fire in 1992, when a large part of the building burned down. After restoration, the Orthodox community of Chernivtsi of the Kyiv Patriarchate holds services in the church, which was consecrated in 1996. The rector of the church, Father Valery Polyanko, conducts the mission.