Qualla: Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos https://qualla.com/church-of-the-nativity-of-the-theotokos-kryvyi-rih en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos https://qualla.com/church-of-the-nativity-of-the-theotokos-kryvyi-rih Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos: Introduction https://qualla.com/church-of-the-nativity-of-the-theotokos-kryvyi-rih/ In March 1918, a parish priest named Mikhail Pukhalsky was tortured for three hours in the yard beside his own church, and killed - and his wife Maria killed with him. Their church was one of the oldest in Kryvyi Rih, the Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos, a modest place a group of farmers had opened as a prayer house in 1886. What that congregation endured across the century that followed - the murder, the seizures, the long enforced silence - is a story of a community that would not let its faith be taken from it, no matter how many times it was told to stop.

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/x/8/church-of-the-nativity-of-the-theotokos-kryvyi-rih-wp/u8x8-church-of-the-nativity-of-the-theotokos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos: A Church for the Harvest https://qualla.com/church-of-the-nativity-of-the-theotokos-kryvyi-rih/ The church was born of the countryside and its rhythms. A local rural society opened it in 1886 and dedicated it to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, whose feast on the 8th of September fell, in the folk calendar, just as the last of the fieldwork was finished and the harvest gath...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/x/8/church-of-the-nativity-of-the-theotokos-kryvyi-rih-wp/u8x8-church-of-the-nativity-of-the-theotokos-a-church-for-the-harvest.mp3 0:06 2 full Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos: The Century of Silence https://qualla.com/church-of-the-nativity-of-the-theotokos-kryvyi-rih/ Then came the revolution, and with it the killing of Father Pukhalsky and his wife. In 1922 the Bolsheviks stripped the church of its valuables. Through the 1920s came proposals to turn it into a village club or an antireligious institute; the building was finally closed in 1935 ...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/8/x/8/church-of-the-nativity-of-the-theotokos-kryvyi-rih-wp/u8x8-church-of-the-nativity-of-the-theotokos-the-century-of-silence.mp3 0:06 3 full Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos: Domes Against the Sky https://qualla.com/church-of-the-nativity-of-the-theotokos-kryvyi-rih/ The turning came on the 7th of February 1991, when the buildings began to be returned to the community that had kept faith with them for a century. What followed was a slow, deliberate resurrection. A central dome went up in 1995. A bell tower rose between 1997 and 2000. A spirit...

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