Stylistic evolution of Volhynia temple architecture in XIX – early XX centuries

An attempt to retrace the main trends in the temple architecture in Volhynia province within the Russian Empire was made in the article. This period was generally characterized by a gradual strengthening of the Russian Orthodox Church and the expulsion of two other Christian denominations: Byzantine-rite Catholic (Uniat) and Roman Catholic. Against this background, in church architecture can be traced the various stylistic currents, based on different artistic paradigms: Classicism (the first third of the 19th century), Romanticism, Gothic, Byzantinism, Neo-Russian Historicism, Art Nouveau, as well as their morphological interferences.