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Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

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Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Otynevychi village, Stryi district
Location:
Otynevychi village
Region:
Stryi region
Church type:
Wooden church
Build period:
2nd half of the 19th century
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Iconostasis:
2nd half of the 19th century
Wall painting:
21 century
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Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Otynevychi village, Stryi district
Abstract:

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in the village of Otynevychi, Stryi district, was built in 1893, probably by Vasyl Nahirnyi. There is a carved inscription on the inner cornice of the southeastern face of the octagon of the nave: "Built in 1893". The church is wooden, one-story, cruciform in plan. The patron of the church was Aloysius of Bohenia. In 1882, the parish priest was Kryloshany's Fr. Mykola Kotsovskyi, the number of parishioners was 660. The interior has preserved the iconostasis, side altars and church furnishings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The mural of the church belongs to the same period. The kivot is original, in the form of the Ark of the Covenant. In 1901, 830 Greek Catholics lived in the village. In 1912, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky paid a canonical visit to the church. The new polychromy was made by Lubomyr Zaleskyi in 2008-2011 with the blessing of Bishop Taras Senkiv under Father Oleh Flinta, as evidenced by the table in the church's interior.
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