ON THE QUESTION OF ARCHITECTURAL IMAGE OF THE HOLY TRINITY TEMPLE IN PRZEMYSL

Abstract

The article deals with the issue of the lost heritage of the Eastern Christian culture of the city of Przemyśl. Being in the area of intense Latin religious expansion, the city underwent numerous transformations and changes, which led to the loss of almost the entire authentic layer relating to the most ancient and Rus` periods in its history. The circle of iconographic materials and the chronology of its origin are given. Highlighted are those images that can be considered closest to the authentic look of a lost building. They are: a drawing of the siege of Przemysl by the troops of Prince Yuri II Rakoczi, which contains information on materials and colors of the Lviv suburbs and a sketch of the same drawing made for the book by L.-A. Guser "Monograph of Przemysl", which gives an idea of some features of the architectural design of the building. A number of iconographic materials and a timeline of their appearance are indicated. Highlighted are those images that can be considered closest to the authentic look of a lost building. They are: a drawing of the siege of Przemysl by the troops of Prince Yuri II Rakoczi, which contains information on materials and colors of this suburb and a sketch of the same drawing made for the book by L.-A. Guser "Monograph of Przemysl", which gives an idea of some features of the architectural design of the building. On the basis of the analysis the hypothetical appearance of the building in the 17th century is outlined. According to him, plan of the temple was a rectangle formed by the merging of the nave and the vestibule, to which was adjacent from the east a large apse of the altar. In terms of space, it looked like an array formed by a stepwise mass of nave and lower vestibule and a high altar apse reaching the height of the nave.