Church of St. Wenceslas

About

The settlement of Kupychiv has been known in documents since the 1570s. Three centuries later, in the 1870s, Czechs also settled here, but in 1947 they returned to their homeland. Today, the village has over 800 inhabitants and belongs to the Kovel district.

Local Roman Catholics (mainly Czechs) belonged to the parish of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kysylyn. The branch neo-Gothic brick church in Kupychiv was built in 1907-1911 thanks to the Czech landowner Václav Pomorský, who financed its construction, and the Pole Zygmunt Chmielowski, who purchased bricks for the church. In 1928, an independent parish was established here.

In the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s, it was served by Father Bonaventure Buzhminsky, who was responsible for about two thousand Latin Rite Catholics in nearly three dozen neighbouring villages. After the war, the church was used as a mill. Today, the former Roman Catholic church is no longer in use.