The monastic order, created to free Christian souls from Islamic captivity at the dawn of the second millennium, and centuries later stood guard over the world's interests under the banner of the cross, when he first entered parliament with ruined Muslim armies and towns to carry out his God-pleasing mission. In 1699, the first Trinitarian monks came to Kamenets, which was left by the Turkish army under the terms of the Karlovy Vary Peace Treaty, together with the Rzeczpospolita Admissions Committee, to fulfill their vows to save and protect the rights of the Catholic population.
At first, the begging order, operating under the motto "Glory to the Trinity, captives - freedom", was given by commissioners a mosque built near the Lyadsky Gate in the Ottoman period, the building of which, however, was severely damaged by floods and close to the Smotrych floodplain. did not promise her a peaceful existence in the future. Therefore, the Trinitarians soon left their inhospitable refuge in favor of a cozy estate on the top of the plateau near the Castle Bridge, which one of the brothers named Michael had inherited three years earlier (in 1696) from the Kamenets burgher Khotsimirsky.
The role of the order, which existed and did its good deeds only through alms, in the city just liberated from the Turkish yoke was so great that in 1712 a wooden church was built with the funds raised, while the buildings became the refuge of the monastic fraternity.
And in 1750 the large-scale construction of the Trinitarian stone monastery complex was started with donations, which was completed in 1765 with the commissioning of monastery residential and farm buildings and the consecration of the church in honor of the Living Trinity by Bishop Krasinski in 1780.
With the establishment of the Russian Empire in Podillya at the end of the 18th century, the existence of the Trinitarian monastery as one of the poorest and smallest in Kamianets-Podilskyi came to a logical end - in 1842 it was closed and its buildings adapted to the State Property Chamber. Later (at the end of the 19th century) the former monastery roof was shared by the County Police Department, the Archives of the Podolsk Provincial Department and the city fire brigade.
At the same time, the Trinity Church continued to fulfill its high spiritual mission, having undergone a reconstruction, during which its interiors changed beyond recognition under the talented brush of I. Pagtl. The second decade of the turbulent twentieth century was marked for the Catholic Church, as well as for countless other strongholds of faith of all denominations and denominations in the new country named after the USSR, the beginning of the oblivion era - ) during the fighting of World War II, the building housed the Regional State Archives of Khmelnytsky region.
Only in 1977, finally, the cultural and historical value of the church near the main gate of the old Kamenets was appreciated by the state, when a large-scale reconstruction of the building began, which, among others, did not affect its interior. Repair and restoration work was completed in 1984.
At the dawn of modern times (Ukraine's independence), when the official ban on religion was lifted, the Holy Spirit returned to the walls of the former Trinitarian Church with members of the Greek Catholic community, which began religious services in the church in 1992. This restored church is now named after St. Jehoshaphat.
The Baroque pearl in one of the main squares of old Kamianets-Podilskyi is a one-nave stone church under semicircular vaults on the formwork with a bell tower, consisting of three pylons connected by arched arches on a high pedestal.
The exterior simple and, at the same time, exquisite decoration of the former Trinitarian Church of Kamianets consists of pilasters of the Tuscan order, on which rests a pediment with decorative sculptures and vases, and a two-step staircase leading to the main entrance. saints.
At first, the begging order, operating under the motto "Glory to the Trinity, captives - freedom", was given by commissioners a mosque built near the Lyadsky Gate in the Ottoman period, the building of which, however, was severely damaged by floods and close to the Smotrych floodplain. did not promise her a peaceful existence in the future. Therefore, the Trinitarians soon left their inhospitable refuge in favor of a cozy estate on the top of the plateau near the Castle Bridge, which one of the brothers named Michael had inherited three years earlier (in 1696) from the Kamenets burgher Khotsimirsky.
The role of the order, which existed and did its good deeds only through alms, in the city just liberated from the Turkish yoke was so great that in 1712 a wooden church was built with the funds raised, while the buildings became the refuge of the monastic fraternity.
And in 1750 the large-scale construction of the Trinitarian stone monastery complex was started with donations, which was completed in 1765 with the commissioning of monastery residential and farm buildings and the consecration of the church in honor of the Living Trinity by Bishop Krasinski in 1780.
With the establishment of the Russian Empire in Podillya at the end of the 18th century, the existence of the Trinitarian monastery as one of the poorest and smallest in Kamianets-Podilskyi came to a logical end - in 1842 it was closed and its buildings adapted to the State Property Chamber. Later (at the end of the 19th century) the former monastery roof was shared by the County Police Department, the Archives of the Podolsk Provincial Department and the city fire brigade.
At the same time, the Trinity Church continued to fulfill its high spiritual mission, having undergone a reconstruction, during which its interiors changed beyond recognition under the talented brush of I. Pagtl. The second decade of the turbulent twentieth century was marked for the Catholic Church, as well as for countless other strongholds of faith of all denominations and denominations in the new country named after the USSR, the beginning of the oblivion era - ) during the fighting of World War II, the building housed the Regional State Archives of Khmelnytsky region.
Only in 1977, finally, the cultural and historical value of the church near the main gate of the old Kamenets was appreciated by the state, when a large-scale reconstruction of the building began, which, among others, did not affect its interior. Repair and restoration work was completed in 1984.
At the dawn of modern times (Ukraine's independence), when the official ban on religion was lifted, the Holy Spirit returned to the walls of the former Trinitarian Church with members of the Greek Catholic community, which began religious services in the church in 1992. This restored church is now named after St. Jehoshaphat.
The Baroque pearl in one of the main squares of old Kamianets-Podilskyi is a one-nave stone church under semicircular vaults on the formwork with a bell tower, consisting of three pylons connected by arched arches on a high pedestal.
The exterior simple and, at the same time, exquisite decoration of the former Trinitarian Church of Kamianets consists of pilasters of the Tuscan order, on which rests a pediment with decorative sculptures and vases, and a two-step staircase leading to the main entrance. saints.
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