Description of the attraction
The Nikolaev Church of the city of Vinnitsa is one of the best examples of the Podolsk school of wooden folk architecture. This oldest functioning Orthodox church was built in 1746 at the expense of Anton Postelnik. The site for the construction of the Nicholas Church was chosen on the left bank of the Southern Bug, in the Old Town at the foot of the mountain, where the old Vinnytsia castle was once located.
The church was erected without a single carnation and is located on the site of the Nikolaev Church of the XIII century, built by Kiev-Pechersk monks. In Soviet times, the building housed a local history museum, and in 1970 the temple was restored.
The Nicholas Church stands out for its archaic architectural elements: beautiful chopped walls and vaulted galleries resting on pillars. The monastery is an example of a three-part church typical for Ukraine. Collected in a compact volume, three log cabins have cut corners forming three octal shapes, and walls slightly inclined inward, intercepted in height by horizontal divisions, divide the entire volume into three tiers. The first tier is called the girdle tier and is a canopy over the arcade gallery. The second tier is the highest - from the girdle roof to the eaves of the semicircular roof of the cut tent. The third tier is a deaf drum located under the dome, crowned with an openwork four-pointed cross. The steep overhang of the roof, together with the encircling first tier and the rapid rise of the tent, give the entire building a sophisticated, complete pyramidal silhouette.
The bell tower, located at the corner of the granite retaining wall, in the event of an enemy attack, served as a fortress tower, from which two walls of the fortification were shot through.
Now Nicholas Church belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
