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GPS (LAT, LONG) :  49.83403489,
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Church of the Holy Prophet Illya

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Church of the Holy Prophet Illya, Yelihovychi village, Zolochiv district
Location:
Yelihovychi village
Region:
Zolochiv region
Church type:
Brick church
Build period:
2nd half of the 20th century
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Iconostasis:
2nd half of the 20th century
Wall painting:
21 century
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Church of the Holy Prophet Illya, Yelihovychi village, Zolochiv district
Abstract:

The church was built on the initiative of the Orthodox community and Fr. Vasyl Sahan in 1993-1995 according to the project of an architect Yaroslav Andrusiv. Brick, five-tiered, baptismal font in plan. Since 1996, Fr. Yuriy Yurechko has been a priest of the church. In the late 1990s, the iconostasis was carved by Fedir Krupka. The icons were painted by Lyubomyr Zaleskyy. In 2010, the icon painting group "Favor" (Kost Markovych, Ihor Pyrih, Volodymyr Petryshyn) painted the icons on the exterior of the church using the sgraffito technique. In 2011-2019, the same icon painters painted the interior of the church according to the project of Kost Markovych. Ihor Tepliy and Taras Lesiv also took part in the painting. The polychromy of the church is a valuable monument of Ukrainian sacred art of the first half of the 21st century. Stained glass in the windows of the tholobate was made by Taras Balukh.

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