Church of St Cyril of Turau and All the Patron Saints of the Belarusian People

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Church of St Cyril of Turau and All the Patron Saints of the Belarusian People
General information
Status Under construction
Location Holden Avenue, London, N12 8HY
Construction started November 2015
Completed November 2016 (expected)
Opening December 2016 (expected)
Owner The Holy See of Rome
Technical details
Floor area 69 m2 (internal), 75 m2 (external)
Design and construction
Architect Tszwai So & Samuel Bentil-Mensah (Spheron Architects)
Structural engineer Andrew Trotman (Timberwright)
Services engineer Arup
Main contractor Timberwright

Church of St Cyril of Turau and All the Patron Saints (also known as Belarusian Memorial Chapel[1]) is a wooden church currently under construction in Woodside Park, London. It is the first wooden church built in London since the Great Fire. It is also the first purpose-built Catholic church of Byzantine rite in London, the first memorial dedicated to the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster erected in Western Europe, the first Belarusian Uniate church built outside Belarus and the first church building made principally out of cross laminated timber panels in London.

The chapel’s construction began in November 2015; the foundation was completed in January 2016 and the cornerstone brought from the Holy Trinity Church in Druja[2] was laid during a ceremony presided by the Apostolic Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Antonio Mennini and Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Holy Family of London, Bishop Hlib Lonchyna on 7 February 2016. Practical completion is expected to be achieved in November 2016.

The design primarily draws inspiration from the rural wooden churches in Belarus. The materials palette was restricted to wood and glass to reflect their austere and tranquil beauty.[1] The church will be clad in timber with restricted areas of clerestory windows and obscured glazing. It is therefore essentially ‘windowless’ reflecting the inward-focused Byzantine liturgical tradition. The design of the external walls was inspired by the traditional vertical timber cladding of the Baroque Uniate churches of Belarus.[3]

Blessing of the cornerstone of the newly erected church of St Cyril of Turau and All the Patron Saints of the Belarusian People. London, 7 February 2016.

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