Felician House, Uhnov (Ukraine), photo przed 1939, all rights reserved
Source: M. Kurzej, „Dom ss. felicjanek pw. św. Kolety w Uhnowie”, [w:] „Kościoły i klasztory rzymskokatolickie na terenie dawnego województwa bełskiego”, t. 1, red. A. Betlej, A. Dworzak, Kraków 2021
Photo showing St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów
Felician House, Uhnov (Ukraine), photo przed 1939, all rights reserved
Source: M. Kurzej, „Dom ss. felicjanek pw. św. Kolety w Uhnowie”, [w:] „Kościoły i klasztory rzymskokatolickie na terenie dawnego województwa bełskiego”, t. 1, red. A. Betlej, A. Dworzak, Kraków 2021
Photo showing St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów
Felician House, Uhnov (Ukraine), photo 2013, all rights reserved
Source: M. Kurzej, „Dom ss. felicjanek pw. św. Kolety w Uhnowie”, [w:] „Kościoły i klasztory rzymskokatolickie na terenie dawnego województwa bełskiego”, t. 1, red. A. Betlej, A. Dworzak, Kraków 2021
Photo showing St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów
Felician Sisters' house, view from the south-east, Uhniv (Ukraine), photo 2021, all rights reserved
Source: M. Kurzej, „Dom ss. felicjanek pw. św. Kolety w Uhnowie”, [w:] „Kościoły i klasztory rzymskokatolickie na terenie dawnego województwa bełskiego”, t. 1, red. A. Betlej, A. Dworzak, Kraków 2021
Photo showing St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów
Felician House, view from the east, Uhniv (Ukraine), photo 2021, all rights reserved
Source: M. Kurzej, „Dom ss. felicjanek pw. św. Kolety w Uhnowie”, [w:] „Kościoły i klasztory rzymskokatolickie na terenie dawnego województwa bełskiego”, t. 1, red. A. Betlej, A. Dworzak, Kraków 2021
Photo showing St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów
Felician Sisters' house, school wing, view from south-west, Uhnów (Ukraine), photo 2021, all rights reserved
Source: M. Kurzej, „Dom ss. felicjanek pw. św. Kolety w Uhnowie”, [w:] „Kościoły i klasztory rzymskokatolickie na terenie dawnego województwa bełskiego”, t. 1, red. A. Betlej, A. Dworzak, Kraków 2021
Photo showing St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów
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St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów

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St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów

St. Koleta House and Chapel of the Felician Sisters in Uhnów - a Roman Catholic institution of a religious and educational character, run by the Felician Sisters, functioning in Uhnów between 1877 and 1951.

. History
The first attempts to bring the Felician Sisters to Uhnów in order to entrust them with the running of a school for girls were made by the local parish priest, Father Józef Motyl, as early as 1867, at the same time as the Felician Sisters arrived in Bełz (for the same purpose). In support of the foundation, he bequeathed a small wooden house to the sisters for the future institution. Efforts were not successfully completed until 10 years later, with the first nuns arriving in Uhnow in the autumn of 1877 and opening a school the following year.

Construction of the chapel did not begin until 1889, was completed in 1890 and consecrated in January 1891.

A few years later, efforts began to build a new building for the Felician Sisters. In 1894 plans for a new school and religious house were prepared by Leopold Mazurek, a bricklayer from Uhnow, and construction began the following year with the consecration of the foundation stone. Work progressed very quickly and the school was ready as early as 28 September. It began its activities on 1 October 1895.

. The growing number of pupils made it necessary to extend the building, which took place in May 1913. Construction took six months and included the addition of a first floor and the raising of the chapel adjacent to the building. The work was again managed by Leopold Mazurek, without being paid for it.

During the First World War, the occupying army set up a hospital for wounded soldiers in the school. After the end of hostilities, the sisters returned to running the primary school (seven grades). It was closed by the Soviet authorities in 1939, and during the German occupation of Uhnów in 1944 the Ukrainian town administration forced the Felician sisters to leave the institution. The sisters briefly left for Szczepanów, only to return to Uhnowo in autumn 1945, when they started running the school again. This was closed after the boundary correction in 1951. The following year the Felician sisters' buildings were taken over as a primary school, which is still located there today.

Architecture
The building complex consists of the single-storey wing of the school, the adjacent two-storey convent building and the chapel. The chapel and the convent attached to it on the side were added to the shorter side of the school in such a way that the chapel had no façade and was seen from the longer side. The school and monastery had no façade divisions, while the chapel was divided by buttresses. The chapel's presbytery was closed with a trilateral arch. It is known from sources that the chapel contained a neo-Gothic altar, which was destroyed after the Felician Sisters left Uhnow.

It is most likely that a design for an oak stylised door, bearing the signature and date 1908, was prepared for the Felician Chapel by Ferdynand Majerski.

Time of construction:

1877

Creator:

Leopold Mazurek (murarz; Uhnów, Ukraina)(preview), Ferdynand Majerski (rzeźbiarz; Polska, Ukraina)(preview)

Bibliography:

  • M. Kurzej, „Dom ss. felicjanek pw. św. Kolety w Uhnowie”, [w:] „Kościoły i klasztory rzymskokatolickie na terenie dawnego województwa bełskiego”, red. A. Betlej, A. Dworzak, Kraków 2021, t. 1, s. 1053-1062

Publication:

16.02.2025

Last updated:

21.02.2025

Author:

dr Agata Dworzak
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Felician House, Uhnov (Ukraine), photo przed 1939, all rights reserved
Photo showing St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów Photo showing St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów Gallery of the object +5
Felician House, Uhnov (Ukraine), photo przed 1939, all rights reserved
Photo showing St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów Photo showing St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów Gallery of the object +5
Felician House, Uhnov (Ukraine), photo 2013, all rights reserved
Photo showing St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów Photo showing St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów Gallery of the object +5
Felician Sisters' house, view from the south-east, Uhniv (Ukraine), photo 2021, all rights reserved
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Felician House, view from the east, Uhniv (Ukraine), photo 2021, all rights reserved
Photo showing St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów Photo showing St Koleta House and Felician Sisters Chapel in Uhnów Gallery of the object +5
Felician Sisters' house, school wing, view from south-west, Uhnów (Ukraine), photo 2021, all rights reserved

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