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St. Mary's Parish Church and Bernardine Monastery in Soroki

ID: POL-002267-P

St. Mary's Parish Church and Bernardine Monastery in Soroki

Historical outline
The village is situated about 10 km north-east of Gwoździec. The first records of Soroki date back to the 15th century. Among the owners of the estate are: the Trembiński family (18th-19th century), later Maria Borkowska, Marceli Garliński, Eugenia Burzyńska, Krzysztof Jakubowicz, Maria Jakubowicz and Salomon Marmarosch.

In the 18th century, the village was inhabited by only two families identifying themselves as Roman Catholic. Gradually, however, the number of worshippers increased and by 1873 there were already one hundred and sixty-eight in Soroki! The village belonged to the parish in Gwoździec. Efforts to establish its own parish church were made in the 1870s. In 1873 a wooden church was built in the village, and in 1879 the procedures for establishing a parish began.

As is often the case, it was not until many years later, in 1908, that an independent pastoral unit was established in Soroki, covering such villages as Okno, Rohyně, Słobódka Polna, Targowica Polna and Wierzbowce. In the same year, a wooden residence of the Bernardine Order was built in the village, which was given the status of a monastic house just before the Second World War.

In 1925 the village got its own parish from which Okno was excluded. Apart from that, the composition remained unchanged until the Second World War. In 1937, the parish was incorporated into the Bernardine Order.

From the very beginning of the exposition (1908) until the end of the fully fledged parish (1946), the pastoral unit was looked after by the same parish priest, Father Felicjan Gomułczak. On the eve of the Second World War, the interior of the church was painted and the rectory was completed. During the Soviet domination, the Soviets initially set up a club in the church and demolished the building in 1955.

As Michal Kurzej writes in his study of the building, the Poles leaving the village did not manage to remove any furnishings. Some of the movables were taken to the local church. The pheretron with the image of St Anthony went to the Orthodox church in Kuty.

Architecture
The building was located in the centre of the village, on the road from Gwoździec to Horodenka. It was a wooden building, on foundations measuring 13 x 6 metres. The chancel was triangularly closed and oriented, i.e. oriented towards the conventional east, meaning Jerusalem. The altar area was accompanied to the north by a sacristy.

The facades were boarded. The building was covered with a gable roof with zinc sheeting. It changed into a pyramidal roof above the closure. Above the front, there was a bell turret covered with sheet metal with a pyramidal roof. The walls inside were not articulated and the whole was covered by a ceiling.

There is not much information about the building and the photographic material is extremely scarce.

Time of origin:
1873
Bibliography:
  • Michał Kurzej, „Kościół parafialny pw. św. Imienia Marii i Klasztor oo. Bernardynów w Sorokach”, 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 978-83-89273-69-74, t. 18, s. 241-244.
Publikacja:
13.10.2024
Ostatnia aktualizacja:
13.10.2024
Author:
Michał Dziadosz
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