Historical outline

The village is situated in a picturesque location, by streams and ponds that merge into a stream called Tajna. In the area of the village there is a hill with an altitude of 353 m. Ivanka Trembowelska is situated about 10 kilometres to the east from Trembowla. The oldest records of this village date back to the 16th century, and among the owners are listed: Baraniecki, Czestołowski, Łącki, Szumańczowski. There is an interesting story connected with the latter. One of the administrators of the estate, at the beginning of the 18th century, was Stanislav Szumańczowski, reputedly a fury above fury, who started incessant brawls in the area. In 1720 the burghers of Tromblin organised themselves and... shot the troublemaker. To commemorate this event, a statue of St. Stanislav was erected near the village.

At the beginning of the 19th century Ivanovka Trembowelska belonged to, among others: Bobrowski, Jakub Eberman and Dawid Parnes, in the 20th century to Florentyna Czartoryska (née Dzieduszycka), and in the interwar period to Michał Szotarski.

In the nineteenth century, the need for an independent sacred object began to lead to concrete action among the inhabitants. In the last decade of that century, construction began. This was achieved mainly thanks to contributions from the faithful and a grant from Florentyna Cieńska, née Dzieduszycka. The consecration of the church took place in 1896, and the village was subordinate to the parish in Trembowla, but when the building was ready, a delegated vicar resided in the village. Around 1908 Ivanovka Trembowelskaya functioned as a separate exposition, although the date of its erection points to 1897. The parish was raised to the status of an independent parish in 1925. In the interwar period, such villages as Lozivka, Stadnica and Viktorivka were annexed to it. In those years, the parish also had two brick chapels, in Hleszczawa and Łozówka. The latter was part of a larger building with a day care centre, a comprehensive school and a teacher's flat.

The upheavals of the Second World War, especially the attacks by the Ukrainians towards the end of the conflict, led to residents fleeing the village. The last parish priest, Father Franciszek Napieracz, left the village on 12 March 1944, after he managed to take refuge during an attack on the vicarage by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. For a short time, the parish was administered by Father Kazimierz Białowąs, but after a brutal act of terror against his post, he too went to Poland. As Tomasz Zaucha writes in his study of the building, the church was closed soon after the Second World War. The Soviets used it as a grain warehouse and, in later years, as a sports hall. Today, it houses the Kyiv Patriarchate Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. Today, it houses the Nativity of the Virgin Mary Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate.

Architecture

The building is located in the southern part of the village, near the intersection of the roads to Hleszczava, Chorostkov and Trembowla. The church is set on a stone foundation, built of brick and plastered. It consists of a three-bay nave and a narrower and lower, single-bay, trilateral closed presbytery, which faces north-east. A rectangular room used as a sacristy is attached to the altar area.

The façade is triaxial, single-storey and framed at the edges by Tuscan pilasters. They support a beam with a frieze of doubled width. The front part is closed from above by a triangular gable framed by pediments. In its field there is a spherical window. The entrance opening, located in the middle, is set in a shallow recess closed with a segmental section. It is decorated with pseudo-pillasters on pedestals and closed with a triangular gable, analogous to the top of the façade. The articulation of the side façades of the nave was carried out with Tuscan pilasters.

The nave is covered with a gable roof, like that of the altar, except that in the latter it changes into a pyramidal roof. The sacristy, on the other hand, is covered by a pent roof. In the past, the building was topped with a sheet metal little tower with a high pyramidal cupola and an iron cross. Today it has been replaced by a bulbous cupola, typical of Eastern churches.

Surrounding the building was a brick bell tower, which was demolished.

The interior walls were closed with a profiled cornice. The nave was covered with a wooden pseudo-column vault. A similar solution was used in the chancel, except that it changes to a polygonal vault at the closing stage.

The windows in the building are mainly rectangular and closed with a semicircle, except for an oculus on the façade and an analogous one in the altar part. A rectangular window is used in the sacristy.

As Tomasz Zaucha writes in his study of the building, the church in Ivanyanka Trembowelskaya is an example of a simple building erected mainly by local people. Most likely, the creator was not an architect, but "a builder trained in the craftsman tradition". There are many traces indicating that he was, leading the construction, Jan Lesyk.