Dominican Church of St. Stanislav

In about 1600, monks of the Dominican Order arrived in Chortkiv, who came here from a town that once existed on the site of the present-day village of Shmankivtsi (10 km south-east of Chortkiv). Stanislav Golsky, who invited the Chortkiv Dominicans, provided funds for the construction of the church, which would later become the nucleus of the monastery. The place for its construction was chosen on the right bank of the River Seret. Probably, by 1610 the church was built. Its main facade was on the old market square. In 1612, Stanislav Golsky died, and he was buried in the temple's dungeon. How church looks in the initial period of its history, there is no information. It is unknown whether the church itself was adapted for defense, but around the perimeter it was surrounded by an outer defensive wall that protected the temple and other monastic buildings. In 1663, during a campaign to Smolensk, moving through Chortkiv, King of the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth Jan II Casimir (1609-1672) visited the Holy Liturgy in the temple. And in 1683 the next Polish king, Jan III Sobieski, visited the monastery church. It is known that in 1731 the church was rebuilt and renamed in honor of Stanislav, a bishop and martyr.The church is reconstructed again in 1780 At the beginning of the 20th century, on the initiative of Chortkiv burgomaster Ludwig Noss, a large-scale reconstruction of the Dominican temple was launched. Such responsible work was given to Jan Sasu Zubritsky (1860 - 1935). The works were begun in 1903 and lasted for nine long years and was almost completely completed before the start of the First World War. As a building material, stone and brick were used. It is known that during this period the premises of the old monastery (sacristy, monastic chancellery, cells) were adjacent to the temple. It is also necessary to mention the two-story building of the so-called New Monastery, where the monks and the library, as well as reception, were arranged. In the process of rebuilding, the church and monastic complex lost all defensive features. After Soviet Power established its rule over the territory, the divine service in the church stopped. Since 1959 its premises was converted into a city’s warehouse. In 1989 the church was returned to the Dominican Fathers. In 2014, a stone cross symbolizing Holy Mission was installed in the church yard. In the main altar there is the copy of the image of the Holy Mother of St. Rosary . According to legends, the icon of the Holy Mother of St. Rosary was painted in the 15th century. The image was brought to Ukraine from Belorussia. The image for Chortkov was presented by the Polish king Jan Kazymyr. Before that it was in Lviv in the temple of St. Mary Magdalene During the Second World War, the icon was taken to Krakow. Today the original is located in the Warsaw Temple of St. Jacek, and the icon that is in Chortkiv is an exact copy of the original.

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