In the National Museum in Krakow there is a project of the iconostasis made in watercolor
on cardboard with signature MNK III-r.a. 18617. The handwritten inscription
in its upper left corner says that it has been prepared in 1911 by the “Krzywicki and
Morawski” company from Radom. This company was chosen to create the architectural
structure of the oak-carved iconostasis to the Orthodox Church of the Protection of Virgin
in Kozienice. This church on the Warsaw street in 1905-1906 was funded by the 25th
Smolensk Regiment.
After the transfer of troops, from the 1911 this Orthodox Church started function as
a parish, and in 1915 was abandoned. In the following year it was the catholic church of
The Queen of the Polish Crown, for Polish legionaries. After the a brief using by the Polish
Catholics after the first world war, in the years 1938-1939 this degradable building
was demolished. The project of the iconostas preserved in Krakow is a valuable source
for research into the original interior of the Orthodox Church. Thanks to this project
I could find fragments of the original iconostas and main altar in the church in Brzeźnica.
Today, these fragments are the part of two retables: in the sanctuary and in the north
chapel. In the oak structure of former iconostas preserved several of the original icons,
which in conjunction with the architectural project allowed to recreate the original altar
barrier program.
keywords in Polish:
Kozienice, ikonostas, prawosławie, cerkiew
keywords in English:
Kozienice, iconostasis, Orthodox Church
number of pulisher's sheets:
0,5
affiliation:
Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych : Katedra Ukrainoznawstwa
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