Region the school found a unique treasure

In the village Hopchytsia Pogrebischenske district of Vinnytsia region found the painting of the Holy Trinity Church, which was destroyed in the 1930-ies.

In those years, with paintings built the roof of the school. In the village, went to a legend that the roof of the school was built from materials of the Church, which preserved ancient paintings. However, no confirmation of this was not.

“Since 1989, building a new school. People cherish as the Apple of his eye. And while the children are in old. She was in such a state that the ceiling of the children falls on the head. Several classes were closed because the ceiling caved in at any moment might collapse. Not once climbed onto the roof of the school to check never runs. But the part where there are boards with the Church murals were covered so in good faith, that there has never proceeded. So there is nobody out” – the Chairman of the Roman Prilutsky.

Found on the roof and clay plates, which for 80 years. Along with Church frescoes they will be placed in the Museum. Try to fold the puzzle.

“Judging by the pictures, there is visible the biblical story of the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, where there is a donkey on which it sits. But I can’t say,” adds the Chairman.

In the archival documents do not indicate what kind of materials were used for roofing.

“The question of building a new school building was considered on 20 November 1926 at a meeting of the village Council. Decided to build a new school on Church land, in place of Popova Riga, which is destroyed. The school was built and put into operation somewhere in the 1930s. Three more classrooms and a narrow corridor completed in 1939 “, – says the head of the Museum Hopchytsia Mikhail Petrenko.

Wooden Church in honor of the Holy Trinity was built at the expense of the landlord Riznich Ivan Stefanovich in 1855. If the Church operated a parochial school for children of parishioners. In the school taught to read the Scriptures, write, and count.