Holy Trinity Tserkva in Zhovkva

Before we leave Ukraine, we will make our last stop to take a look at the wooden Holy Trinity Church. It was built in a suburb of Zhovkva in 1720 on the place of a church that burned down in 1717.

On the church's walls one can find the plates confirming that the building is an architecture monument built in 1720.

The structure consisits of three wooden naves and a brick sacristy.

In the back you can admire the iconostasis consisting of about 50 icons painted by the masters of Zhovkva Painting and Carving School of Ivan Rutkovych in the beginning of 18th century. The iconostasis is made from linden wood carved by Ignatiy Stobenskyj. In 1978-79 iconostasis was restored.

On June 21, 2013 on the 37th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Cambodja the Holy Trinity Church was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List among 16 wooden tserkvas of Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine. We have already seen another of those sixteen tserkvas when we were in Powroźnik.

The church belongs nowadays to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

I hope that you have enjoyed our sightseeing around Western Ukraine. Next week we will be aleady miles away.