Attractions of Lviv region

The Monastery of the Sacraments (Benedictine nuns of continuous worship of the Holy Mysteries) with the Church of the Engagement of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph was built in Lviv in 1744-1780 on the site of a half-timbered church founded in 1718.

The neo-baroque tower was built during reconstruction in 1884-1887 according to the project of Adolf Minasevych.

In 1995, the church was consecrated as the Church of the Holy Trinity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The Museum of Sacred Art of the Lviv Archdiocese named after Father Anton Petrushevych Curia of the Lviv Archdiocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was opened in 2008 in the restored church of Saint Klymentiy Sheptytsky.

An exposition of monuments of iconographic art collected by Studite monks after the legalization of the UGCC is presented.

The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was built in Stoianiv in 1901 on the site of the old wooden church founded in 1624 at the expense of the Kadlubsky family.

The author of the project of the new neo-Gothic church is the Polish architect Teodor-Maryan Talovsky, a pupil and professor of the Lviv Polytechnic.

In the 1930s, a statue of the Mother of God was installed near the church, but it was destroyed in the 1970s. In Soviet times, the premises were used as a warehouse.

In 2000, the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was returned to the Catholic community of Stoianiv. Currently, it has been restored and is working.

Saint Anna's School was founded in Lviv at the Church of Saint Anna in 1791.

The current building in the English neo-Gothic style was built in 1884 according to the project of the architect Yuliush Hokhberger.

Since 2009, the Lviv Law School has been located here.

The Greek Catholic Church of Saint Anna on Volyanka Street in Boryslav was built in 1900 and consecrated in 1902 as the Roman Catholic Church of Saint Barbara.

The temple is made of brick with the use of natural stone in the neo-Gothic style with elements of the neo-Romanesque style. The height with the cross is 37 meters. The perimeter of the walls is supported by buttresses.

The temple is decorated with large windows with figured stained glass. The main altar houses the image of Saint Barbara by the famous artist and sculptor Anton Popel. In 1930-1931, the church was painted by masters under the direction of the Kraków artist Antoniy Protsaylovych.

In 1963, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities, and in 1989 it was opened as the Greek Catholic Church of Saint Anna.

Now it is a unique pilgrimage center where the relics of more than 500 saints are kept. They were collected from all over the world by the abbot of the temple, Father Roman. On major holidays, you can see a reliquary in which 54 relics related to the life and death of Jesus Christ are collected. It is believed that the relics of saints can cure all diseases. Many cases of recovery of incurable patients have already been recorded.

The Church of Saint Anna was founded in Lviv as a Catholic church in 1507 on the spot where apprentice tailors who fled the city were killed and buried by the city guard.

The first wooden temple burned down several times. In its current form, the church of Saint Anna was rebuilt in 1730 by the Augustinian order. The transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque is noticeable in the architecture. The bell tower was added in 1927 by the architect Bronislav Viktor, the dome is made in the Art Deco style.

Today it is the church of Saint Anna of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The Church of Saint Anthony of Padua in Lviv is an excellent example of church architecture in the Baroque style.

The Franciscan Church of Saint. Anthony was founded in 1618-1630 outside the then city walls, and was originally wooden.

The current stone temple was built at the expense of Prince Kostyantyn-Kryshtof Korybut Vyshnevetsky, consecrated in 1739. Some sources date the founding of the wooden church in 1718, and the construction of the stone church in 1784. It is also known about the reconstruction of the temple in 1765 by the architect Frantsysk Kulchytskyi.

In 1818, a bell tower was built according to the project of the architect Yozef Markl.

The Church of Saint Anthony remained active even in Soviet times.

The rich interior decoration of the temple has been preserved to this day. The interior is refined and beautiful: the magnificent carvings and gilding in the Rococo style are impressive. On the parapet of the stairs in front of the entrance is a stone sculpture of the Virgin Mary by Sebastyan Fesinhera(XVIII century).

Now the church again belongs to the Franciscans. In 1995, it was declared the sanctuary of Saint Anthony of Padua.

The wooden church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Volia-Vysotska is one of the oldest preserved wooden churches of the Lviv region.

In the interior you can see the iconostasis of 1655, some of the icons for which were executed in 1688-1689 by the artist Ivan Rutkovych.During the restoration in 1992, paintings from 1611 were also discovered, which are considered to be among the oldest in wooden churches in Ukraine.

The monastery complex with the church of Saint Clement of the Pope was built in Lviv in 1893-1895 by the builder Ivan Levynskyi according to the project of Frants Shtatts for the Catholic female monastic order of the Discalced Carmelites.

In 1939, the headquarters of the NKVD was located here. In 1943, the Nazis shot Italian prisoners of war on the territory of the monastery garden and cemetery. After the Second World War, until 1952, the guard regiment of the NKVD-MIA was housed in the buildings of the monastery. Later, this unit was based on the southern outskirts of the city, and the monastery complex was taken over by the city's ATS - the temple housed an operating room for settlements with clients. In the 1960s, during renovation and construction works, the remains of the repressed were found here.

Currently, the church of Saint Clement of the Pope is an active church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Discovered in one of the brick niches, the figure of the crucified Christ without hands is now installed in the altar of the church.

The Church of Saint Francis Borgia in Rozluch is a rare example of a wooden Catholic church in the Neo-Gothic style.

It was built at the beginning of the 20th century as a chapel for German colonists at the expense of parishioners and the Boni Pastoris brotherhood. The church is a unique example of wooden churches, in which neo-Gothic elements are combined with the techniques of folk architecture, which is especially noticeable in the interior.

After the Second World War, the church was used as a collective farm fertilizer warehouse, and later as a granary.

The Church of Saint George in Brody is the so-called "Little Church", an outstanding building in the style of Galician folk architecture.

A temple of defensive type. Built at the beginning of the 17th century, restored in 1867.

Inside the Church of Saint George is a highly artistic iconostasis in the Rococo style.

The monastery and the church of Saint George were founded in Sheptytskyi by the Belz voivode Frantsishek Saleziy Potocki in 1763 for the Greek-Catholic order of the Basilians.

In 1771-1776, a stone church and cells were built on the site of the wooden buildings according to the project of the architect Yohan Kasper Zelner. The architecture combines features of late baroque and classicism.

The monastery was liquidated in 1946 by the Polish authorities. In 1980, a branch of the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism was opened in the church building, and an art gallery was opened in the cells. In 1989, the museum was moved to the Potocki Palace, and the temple complex was handed over to the Greek Catholic community.

The Kokhavyne monastery of Saint Gerard was founded in 1755 by monks of the Carmelite order at the wooden temple built in 1748 for the miraculous icon of the Our Lady of Kokhavyne.

The current southern part of the village of Hnizdychiv used to be a separate village of Kokhavyne, which is associated with a legend about the phenomenon of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Kokhavyne. According to legend, the icon was discovered in the Kokhavyne forest in 1646, and soon this place became an object of mass pilgrimage. At first, the icon was kept in a small chapel, later a new wooden church was built at the expense of Kostyantyna Vyhovskyi.

During the Austrian rule, the monastery was closed, but in 1868 the construction of a large stone church in the neo-Gothic style began, which was consecrated in 1894. The neo-Gothic stone chapel was built in 1901-1902.

During the Soviet rule, the monastery and temple were closed, and a boarding school was placed on the territory.

Today it is the monastery of the Redemptorists of Saint Gerard. The temple was consecrated in honor of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God (remnants of paintings have been preserved). The miraculous icon was exported to Poland in 1945. Now there is a copy of it in the church. Next to the chapel is a holy spring.

Since 1708, when the Lviv Assumption Stavropygius brotherhood converted to Greek Catholicism, the Orthodox community of Lviv did not have its own church, services were held in private homes.

The construction of the Orthodox Church of Saint Great Martyr George, according to the project of the Austrian architect Gustav Zakhs, began in Lviv in 1897. The image of the church, which is atypical for Galician sacral architecture, combines features of the neo-Romanesque and neo-Byzantine styles, which are more typical for Bukovyna.

From 1992 to April 2023, the Church of Saint George was the cathedral of the Lviv Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine and the only church in Lviv that belonged to the Moscow Patriarchate. Today, the church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The wooden church of Saint Illya the Prophet in Krasne is an architectural monument of national significance.

The temple is located in the southern part of the village, on the bank of the Holohirka River.

The church is large, three-log, covered with helmet-shaped domes, the central one of which is completed by a lantern with a crown.

Nearby is a stone bell tower, built in 1886-1900.