Church of St. Nicholas

The Church of St. Nicholas in the town of Hlynyany was built in 1894 based on the project of Sylvester Havryshkevych. The temple is perceived as a complete artistic organism, since almost all the elements of the equipment were made in the last decade of the 19th century, and marked by artistic and stylistic unity. The author of church polychromy was Severyn Borachok, who worked here from 1932 to 1934. The young artist, who received professional education at the Krakow Academy of Arts, decided to restore the technology of fresco painting. According to the testimony of the old residents, the parishioners brought milk and eggs daily to work on the wall painting.

In Soviet times, the church was turned into a warehouse, the icons were cut out of the iconostasis, and the windows were smashed. S. Boracek's polychromy was practically lost, a faint shadow with faded colours remained. In 1989, services were resumed in the church. Soon, the parishioners began to notice strange things: the frescoes gradually "restored themselves": the colours became more saturated, and the pattern became clearer.

Such folk tales are a manifestation of historical memory, important evidence of the mythologizing of the local cultural heritage and the encoding in the image-symbol of "self-renewal" of the idea of revival and immortality of the Ukrainian Church.