Church of the Holy Martyr Josaphat

The Church of the Holy Martyr Josaphat in Deviatnyky was built in 1904 on the initiative of the village grandfather, Count Kazimir Sheptytsky (Blessed Klymentiy), brother of Metropolitan Andrey. It is located on a hill and is an expressive dominant of the picturesque landscape of the village. In its architectural design, architect Vasyl Nahirnyi combined the Byzantine type of church with the principles of a traditional Galician church. Similar to wooden churches, the Church of the Ninth is surrounded by a wide porch on attached wooden profiled walls. The piercing of the walls of the porch and the decoration of the facades with arched belts and narrow vertical niches in the form of loopholes reminds us of defensive Romanesque architecture. Inside, the church is spacious and majestic, which is given by the dome raised above the octagon and generous lighting. The author of the carved iconostasis of 1937 is the famous carver Andriy Sabaray and the artist Anton Manastyrsky. Unverified information says that the church was painted in 1909 by Modest Sosenko. Perhaps they were destroyed along with the church during the 1918 war. Nowadays, the walls of the church are covered with rather neutral stencil paintings with narrative images.