Cmentarz prawosławny w Czerniczynie

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The Orthodox Cemetery in Czerniczno - the Orthodox necropolis in Czerniczno, created for the needs of the local parish after 1875, used until the end of the Second World War. [source: Wikipedia, 3685428]

History and description

The date of the cemetery's creation is unknown. The cemetery was probably decorated after renaming the Uniate Orthodox church in Cherishnav as a result of the liquidation of the Uniate Chełm diocese in 1875 D.Kawałko, Cemeteries ..., p.70 . The cemetery was used by the local Orthodox population until the end of the Second World War and displacement of the Orthodox Ukrainians. It is difficult to determine the period from which the last dated gravestones originated. After the war, along with displacements, he was abandoned . At the beginning of the 1990s, there were several stone tombstones in the necropolis . In 2016, the cemetery was devastated [http://orthodox.fm/cmentarz-prawoslawny-w-czerniczynie/ M. Sawa, Orthodox Cemetery in Czerwinno] . In the cemetery there are broken and fallen crosses on pedestals and pedestals with extensions. Tombstones are decorated with multistage cornices, triangular tympana, panel pilasterkami and kanelurami. There are also a few desecrated tombs. Inscriptions on tombstones have been made in the Church Slavonic language. The poplar, robinia, oak, horse chestnut and ash, as well as black cherry, snow, dark elderberry, jasmine, lilac lilac and wild hops grow in the cemetery . [source: Wikipedia, 3685428]

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