Kostel sviatoho Lavrentiia u s. Taikury (St. Lawrence Church in Taikury Village)

Architectural monument, ruins of the Catholic church.

Rivne Oblast, Kornyn Territorial Community (Hromada), Taikury Village, vul. Nezalezhnosti.

50.53080, 26.37011

18 km

The church was constructed in the early Baroque style. The architect reflected the luxury of this style in the interior, whereas the exterior had a rather ascetic appearance.

 A long time ago, Catholics from all nearby towns and villages came to the church for service. Unfortunately, today the church is half-ruined; however connoisseurs of ancient architecture can still see the beauty in the brick walls with peeling plaster.

 The temple is located in the centre of Taikury village, oriented from east to west, it is made of bricks, plastered, single-nave. A half-ruined but still hard stone wall with arched niches surrounds the St. Lawrence Church on all sides. There is a bell tower in the form of a high pediment with three vertical slits for bells in the north-western corner of the wall.

 There are crypts underneath the Taikury St. Lawrence Church, where prominent inhabitants of the once noisy town found their last earthly refuge. One could enter the dungeons from the inside of the temple, but nowadays it is covered with soil.

 During the Soviet times, on April 14, 1952, the church was turned into a granary, and from February 14, 1953, it was used as a Museum of Atheism. In 1979 it became an warehouse of the local collective farm, and now it has turned to ruins.

 In recent years, volunteers from Poland and locals have occasionally cleaned the church and its yard; they have set up crosses and lit candles.