title: «Local altars» ― a unique phenomenon of the Greek-Catholic church in Belarus (late 17th – early 19th centuries)
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metadata.value: Flikop-Svita, Halina Aljaksandrawna
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-30T20:36:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-30T20:36:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Flikop-Svita Η. Α. «Local altars» ― a unique phenomenon of the Greek-Catholic church in Belarus (late 17th – early 19th centuries). Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2020, vol. 2 (28), pp. 159–178.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu19.2020.210
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33719
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article discusses the unique cultural and religious phenomenon which was formed and
  existed for about a century and a half in the Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church of the Rzeczpospolita — altars,
  included in the iconostasis. To denote these sacred objects in the Uniate records of the 18th century, as it
  became known from numerous researched historical documents, the Polish-language term «ołtarze
  namiesne» («local altars») was used. «Local altars» was created with the setting of the throne to the
  icons of the local (lower) rank of the iconostasis — hence the name. Their occurrence is related to
  the adoption of Uniate religious practices, which was originally preserved in the Eastern Christian
  rites, the Western-Christian traditions. «Local altars» is an alternative to the traditional Catholicism
  of the side wall of the altars. In liturgical practice they were used with the same purpose — they
  can serve custom-made mass, but in manufacturing it was more simple and budget method: it was
  necessary only to put the throne to the iconostasis under the local icon. With time, formed a way
  of creating iconostases originally included in them aedicules — architecturally designed niches for
  local icons, which visually resembled the traditional architectural retablo altars. With the abolition
  of the Uniate Church in 1839 temples were converted to Orthodoxy, and all attributes of Catholicism
  were dismantled. Up to the present time on the territory of Belarus has no surviving full «local altar»
  with the throne. The study was conducted on the basis of historical documents of the late 17th – early
  19th centuries with descriptions of nearly two thousand parish, branch, monastery and Cathedral
  Greek-Catholic churches in Belarus. It was found that by 1676 the practice of using «local altars»
  already existed, as evidenced by the revealed date of creation of the only preserved in Belarus, Uniate
  iconostasis with aedicules from the Church of Assumption monastery in Zhirovichi village, Slonim
  district of Grodno region. Thus, the «local altars» to the last quarter of the 17th century became the
  Uniate practice, where it was used until the early 19th century. Due to the complete loss of the artifacts
  to date, this sacred phenomenon in the Greek-Catholic churches in Belarus was not known.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 2 (28)
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: «local altar»
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the iconostasis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the lower rank of the iconostasis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Greek Catholic Church
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the throne
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the local icon
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: «Local altars» ― a unique phenomenon of the Greek-Catholic church in Belarus (late 17th – early 19th centuries)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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