page_title: Bernardine Monastery, Iziaslav
section_title: 1602-1648
hierarchical_section_title: Bernardine Monastery, Iziaslav / History / 1602-1648
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Костел Святого Івана, Заслав.
context_page_description: The church of St. Michael and Bernardine monastery is a beautiful piece of baroque sacral architecture in Iziaslav, Ukraine. It was a Roman Catholic monastery complex grounded in the early 17th century. Between 1797 and 1815, it was the main residence of the Ruthenian province of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Bernardine. Located in the Old Town, on the high left bank of the Horyn River. The complex of buildings included a stone church and a monastery, a bell tower, chapels, outbuildings and more. In the northwestern part of the monastery ground, there was a cemetery and a garden, in the north-east - pond and a garden. The monastery complex was surrounded by a high defensive wall with loopholes and gates. Nowadays, it is a prison "Zamkova Correctional Colony № 58".
context_section_description: According to a Roman Catholic source, Prince Janusz Janusziewicz Zaslavsky in 1602 under the construction of a monastery of the beggarly Order of Bernardines (so in the territory of Eastern Europe are called representatives of the Order of the Friars Minor - Franciscans). "abandoned Orthodox Chapel" of the Baptist Church " which "from ancient times" belonged to the treasure of Princes Zaslavsky. Most probably, it was about the construction of a Roman Catholic shrine on the site of a former Orthodox monastery,  the Holy Trinity Monastery, which was already in decline by the time of unknown life changes.
  The information about the construction of the monastery and its church was not preserved, at least, this information is not known to modern researchers. The mention of July 15, 1622 informs us that the building of St. Michael's Church has just begun to be vaulted. Therefore, we can assume that from the time of the fundus, by the time the walls of the church were already extinct, had been 18 years. 
  It took so long to build, and in particular to architect Jakub Madeline, to first prepare and then undertake such grand construction. In general, the construction of the complex lasted until 1630, since the construction of the monastery was included in the city defense system of Old Zaslav on the ground side (from the north). 
  It is during this period that historians date the western facade of the monastery building with its attic and typical Mannerist pediments preserved to this day. It is likely that architect Bernard Avelides was involved in the planning of these forceps. In addition, the modern appearance of the monastery can be seen on the map from the 18th century, where the four-tiered tower draws special attention.  
  With the beginning of the Cossack rebel under the leadership of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the icon of the Zaslav Mother of God was evacuated to the Bernardine monastery in Rzeszow. Meanwhile, the Cossacks and kholops, having seized the city, plundered and destroyed the monastery, which in a deplorable state lasted for almost 80 years.
caption: The temple of John the Baptist was built at the same time as the Bernardine monastery by the same architect.
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