Church of St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker in Polonka
Polonka has been known since 1495. It was well-known as a small place on the old Warsaw road. At various times it belonged to the families of Khreptovicy and Sangushky-Nesuchoezhsky.
On the site of the catholic church belonging to the Dominican monastery which was closed down in 1830, a church of St. Paraskeva was built and consectared in 1880 and dismantled in the 1920s as it had fallen into decay.
In its place a church of St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker was built.
The church is of retrospective Russian style. It has a symmetric axial volume-space composition. On the east, its square main framework joins the pentahedral apse with two side vestries, on the west, it joins the narthex with a picturesque 3-tier bell turret covered with the tent-shaped top. The sloping hipped roof of the main framework is complete with an octahedral lighting barrel with a faceted onion-shaped dome and a low tent. Similiar four onion-shaped domes are mounted on the corners of the framework.
The apse is divided by the iconostasis.
Geographic coordinates: N 53° 08' 51,75" E 25° 42' 44,15"
Foto: Владимира ЗУЕВА, Андрея ПОНОМАРЕВА
