Kupiškio Kristaus Žengimo į dangų bažnyčios architektūra ir dailės kūriniai

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Altoriai; Architektūra; Baldai; Dailė; Dailės paveldas; Interjeras; Katalikai; Kristaus Žengimo į dangų bažnyčia; Kupiškio Kristaus Žengimo į dangų bažnyčia; Kupiškis; Neogotika; Paveikslai; Urbanistika; Vargonai; Altars; Architecture; Art; Art Heritage; Catholic; Furnitures; Interior; Kupiskis Christ's Creation to Heaven Church; Kupiškis; Neo-Gothic; Organs; Pictures; The Church of the Ascension of Christ; Urbanism.

ENThe Church of the Ascension of Christ of Neo-Gothic forms dominating in the panorama of Kupiškis is the third Catholic shrine in the town. The first wooden one had been built in 1616; it was renovated in 1746 and sacred by the name of St. Michael the Archangel. On August 14, 1781 the house of prayer had burnt. In 1791 a new church had been built and named as the Church of Guardian Angels. At the end-19th century, the wooden church was already too small for a growing town, its building showed wear, thus the efforts had been undertaken to build a new church. In 1897, the tsar authorities gave a permission to build a larger church. In 1947, Vladislovas Kupstas, who was a parson of Kupiškis church and a dean, wrote in his manuscript that the new church had been designed by engineer Konstantin Ronchevski (1875-1935), professor at the Riga Polytechnic Institute. The Kupiškis neo-gothic church seems to be the only his project in architecture of such a scale; although graduated as architect, Prof. Ronchevki is better known as a historian of architecture and a sculptor.The church is built and equipped in the first half of the 20th century, but the art collections in it embrace the 18th-20th centuries. It was endeavoured to make up the interior equipment and art decorations of the church from pieces of old church (pictures of apostles, church textile, altar crosses and candlesticks, stone vessels for holy water etc.), new makings of famous church workshops had been booked and purchased at the start of the 20th century and its first half. Three altars (the large one and two in the side naves) had been made in Šiauliai at the Aleksandras Zaborskie workshop; while the pulpit, two side chapel altars and several smaller woodenware pieces are thought to be produced at the Vladas Čižauskas workshop. About 1920, a cabinetmaker Jonas Jakutis had made furniture for this church and its sacristy. Three bells had been cast in the Bochumer Verain foundry in 1930-1932 in Germany. [From the publication]