Kaplytsia-kostel Zadems’kykh u Symonovi (Zademski Chapel Church in Symoniv)

Architectural monument.

Rivne Oblast, Hoshcha Territorial Community (Hromada), westwards of the Symoniv village.

50.57194, 26.61775

38,3 km

By 1917, Count Sosnowski and his relatives owned more than a thousand acres of land in Symoniv. Sosnowski leased this land to a number of tenants, particularly other landowners, such as Regulski, Okolski, Zademski. The old-timers of the village remember the last of these tenants more than the others. Mr. Zademski became rich mostly on the local lands; he built a beautiful estate with outbuildings here. By the way, in the 1960s in one of his houses there was a village public school. The building has been preserved to this day. Mr. Zademski’s had enough money even to buy a car, which was a luxury at the time. This honourable gentleman even had his own chapel church.

 Jewstafij Żołnir, a local researcher of the Symoniv village history (now deceased; he worked as the head of the village library and the Secretary of the Symoniv Village Council), claimed that it was Mr. Zademski who built the chapel in the early 1930s. On holidays, a catholic priest with a choir came to the chapel and conducted the service. Poles from neighbouring villages, as well as Symoniv Poles, who taught children at the school, attended the services in the chapel church. Nevertheless, the services in the chapel stopped in 1939, when the “Soviets” came to the village. Mr. Zademski and his family were deported to Siberia.

 Since then, the chapel has been used for household purposes: the the construction was completed by the premises for hop drying and storage, the hops were later packed in tall tarpaulin bags and delivered to the brewery in Rivne.  In the late 1980s, the brick extension was partially dismantled, furthermore, the slate roof was removed from the hop dryer and the chapel. Only half a meter thick walls remained, however even they have been collapsing ever since… Currently, local activists are exploring the Zademski Chapel Church and seeking funding for its restoration.

Source: http://retrorivne.com.ua/zhittja-zabutoi-i-znivechenoi-kaplici-mozhe-vidroditisja/