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Parish Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Bohorodyczyn

ID: POL-002247-P

Parish Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Bohorodyczyn

Historical outline
The village is located about 16 km south of the city of Translate and about 12 km east of Otynia. The first mention of Bohorodyczyn appeared as early as the 15th century. Initially, the village belonged to the royal estate, and soon afterwards it passed through the hands of such owners as: Mikolaj Czerniejowski, Jan Rycerzyk, Mikolaj Chocimirski. From the end of the 15th century until the 19th century there is an information gap. In other words, it is not known who ruled the village at that time and what exactly happened to it. At the height of the 19th century, Bohorodyczyn came into the possession of Roman Nikorovich, later Athanasius Shadbey (or Shadbey) and his heirs. In the 20th century, the owners of the village included Celestyn Stadler, and later Naftali Luft.

The Roman Catholic inhabitants, after years of belonging to the parish of Chocimierz, wanted to have their own independent unit. In 1923, Bohorodyczyn gained its own parish church, although efforts to create it had begun long before.

The sacred object at which the parish was established was a 19th century chapel, built in 1882 on the initiative of local residents and the then owner of the estate, Antoni Szadbey. The church was restored and extended in 1904 and a rectory was built in 1912. Unfortunately, the renovated church went through a lot in the following years. In 1912, it suffered from a fire and, a few years later, the First World War also brought further damage. The inter-war period therefore saw numerous repairs and acts of retrofitting the church. In between repairs, however, the idea of creating a full-scale church building in the village emerged. Bronislaw Wiktor worked on the project.

Unfortunately, the Second World War interrupted these plans and the old church burned down in 1944. The Polish population left the village in 1946.

During the period of greatest activity, such organisations as the Association of the Living Rosary, the Catholic Husbands' Association, the Catholic Women's Association, the Catholic Men's and Women's Youth Associations, the Pontifical Work for the Propagation of the Faith and Catholic Action were active at the parish in Bohorodyczyn.

Architecture
The building was situated on the road leading to the village called Translator. The church was brick, plastered and the chancel faced north. It consisted of a single-span nave and a smaller and narrower single-span presbytery closed with a trilateral nave. In her study of the building, Catherine Brzezina cites that "it was a modest building, giving - according to the inventory entry - 'the impression of a rather larger chapel'.

The general character of the building can be described as simple, with Gothic elements. The building was dominated by rectangular windows, closed with a semicircle. The choir was wooden, supported by four pillars.

The simple facades were articulated with lisens at the corners of the nave. The façade was tripartite, also framed by lisens and capped by a triangular gable with slopes decorated with an arcaded frieze, which was crowned by a cross. The central field was slightly risalitic with the entrance opening on the axis. Above this were three windows, going into the gable field.

The nave and chancel were covered by gable roofs, which changed to pyramidal roofs in the chancel closure. Gabled roofs were used over the vestries. All the roofs were covered with sheet metal, as was the hexagonal turret for the signature tower. It was topped with a high pyramidal roof with a cross on top.

Time of origin:
1882, extension 1906
Bibliography:
  • Katarzyna Brzezina, „Kościół parafialny pw. Narodzenia Najświętszej Panny Marii w Bohorodyczynie”, w: „Materiały do dziejów sztuki sakralnej na ziemiach wschodnich dawnej Rzeczypospolitej”, cz. 1: „Kościoły i klasztory rzymskokatolickie dawnego województwa ruskiego”, Kraków: Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury w Krakowie, 2010, ISBN 978-83-89273-79-6, t. 18, s. 27-36.
Publikacja:
11.10.2024
Ostatnia aktualizacja:
11.10.2024
Author:
Michał Dziadosz
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