The Last Supper icon from the iconostasis

Brief description

In the territory of historical Transcarpathia, one of the first diocesan artists was Mykhaylo Mankovych (1785-1853). In 1800 M. Mankovych entered the theological seminary in Uzhgorod, where during the examination Bishop Andrei Bachynsky noticed his artistic talent, having seen the outline of his portrait on a piece of paper in the hands of a seminarian. This event took place in 1802 and the bishop in the same year sent a young seminarian to study at the Vienna Academy of Arts, providing a scholarship at his own expense.

Starting to carry out the order of pastors throughout the Diocese of Mukachevo, Mykhaylo Mankovych quickly became a famous artist among the local clergy. But to carry out the work on the decoration of iconostases, he needed the help of a highly skilled and experienced carver. Such a carver was Vasyl Landel, who came from the town of Hajdu-Doroh (Hungary) and worked with Mykhaylo Mankovych on the decoration of temples in the Mizhhirs'kyi district of the Transcarpathian region.