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Article: Architect Apollinare Osadca sponsors church in his native village in
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- The Ukrainian Weekly
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- December 15, 1996
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Khristina Lew
Ukrainian Weekly, The
12-15-1996
Architect Apollinare Osadca sponsors church in his native village in. Ukraine
It was a poignant homecoming that brought a gifted architect's life full circle. This fall, on the eve of his 80th birthday, Apollinare Osadca returned to his native village of Voloshchyna in western Ukraine to survey the construction of a church built on the property that once embraced his ancestral home.
The red-brick facade of Laying the Vestments of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church rises imposingly on a slight incline. This skeleton of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic church's cupola remains protected by scaffolding. A wooden cupola rests on a patch of grass in the ...