Most Holy Trinity Parish (Stavyshche)

The first Catholic church in Stavyshche is mentioned as early as 1756. It was a wooden church built by Jerzy August Wandalin Mniszech, starosta of Bila Tserkva. In 1778, a brick church in the late Baroque style, Holy Trinity Church, was built with funding from the Branicki counts. Following the October Revolution, all church valuables were confiscated in 1922. The church was closed in 1931. Its last pastor, Fr Albin Hutovskyi, was persecuted by the Bolsheviks. The organist, Anton Basynskyi, was executed on 14 October 1937 following a sentence by the Soviet NKVD. From that time, the Roman Catholic Parish of the Holy Trinity ceased to exist. The church was demolished down to its foundations, on which the Zirka cinema was later built. The Parish of the Most Holy Trinity began to revive in 2008.