Attractions of Lviv region

The wooden church of Saint Paraskeva Pyatnytsia in Belz in the Lviv region is an architectural monument of national importance. Perhaps this is the oldest surviving architectural structure of the city. It is located in the old cemetery in the Lublinske suburbs.

Information about the date of construction of the church is contradictory. According to some data, it dates back to the 15th century. The tax register of 1515 clearly testifies to the existence of the Pyatnytska Church in Belz, but it is not known whether it is this building in question. In the documents of the UGCC of the first half of the 20th century, it is mentioned that the church was originally built in the village of Prusyniv and moved to its current location in the 18th century.

According to the official data of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve in Belz Town, the present church of Paraskeva Pyatnytsia was built between 1762 and 1766. It was built on the order of the parish priest, Father Danylo Zborovsky, from pine beams on oak foundations. At the end of the 18th century, the church was transformed into a burial chapel at the city cemetery.

The building was rebuilt many times. During the times of the USSR, it was a wasteland. It was restored only in 1977, although, unfortunately, its original appearance was changed. Babinets was dismantled, which turned the church into a two-part chapel-type.

The Church of Saint Paraskeva Pyatnytsya in Lviv is one of the oldest churches in Lviv. The defense-type church is located at the foot of the High Castle on the Volyn road (Pidzamche district).

The temple was built at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. It underwent significant reconstruction in 1644 after a fire. The architecture combines Gothic and late Renaissance elements.

The greatest value of the church of Saint Paraskeva is a masterpiece of Lviv artists and carvers of the 16th-17th centuries - a five-row Renaissance iconostasis (70 icons) and a baroque royal gate, completed with a crucifix with figures on the sides.

The Church of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskevia in the village of Stilsko was founded in 1831 next to the new cemetery at the foot of the Stilsko settlement.

Due to a lack of funds, the construction was delayed and was completed in 1843 thanks to the financial assistance of Count Stanislav Skarbek.

The architecture of the temple is an example of the Teresian style characteristic of that time. The church is single-nave, rectangular in plan, basilica type, with a three-tiered tower above the entrance. Above the entrance door, the coat of arms of Skarbek is embossed - as a sign of gratitude for his patronage. A stone arch-bell tower is placed in front of the entrance.

Now Saint Paraskevia Church belongs to the community of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The temple holiday is celebrated on November 10.

The Cathedral of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Volodymyr was built in Chervonohrad at the beginning of the 18th century in the Baroque style as the Catholic Church of the Sending of the Holy Spirit in the Bernardine monastery complex.

It is the oldest building in the city, the most visible building in Chervonohrad.

It was founded in 1692 together with the monastery of the Roman Catholic order of Bernardines. After a fire that destroyed the wooden structures, the complex was rebuilt in stone in 1760 at the expense of Józef-Felician Potocki. The interiors were painted by Giuseppe Balzani and Stanislav Stroinski.

In 1951, the temple was closed. In 1988, the building was handed over to the Orthodox community, rebuilt as an Orthodox church and rededicated as the Orthodox Church of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Volodymyr.

The Church of Saint Stanislav in Sambir is part of the whole monastic complex of the Jesuit order, built between 1709 and 1751 according to the project of architects Jan Delamaris and Pavlo Hizhytsky.

A baroque church, rectangular in plan, three-nave, basilica type. The main facade is flanked by low two-story towers topped by triangular pediments. In the interior, six pillars support a system of vaults.

Nearby, in 1756-1759, the architect Karshnytsky built a baroque building for the Jesuit college.

After the liquidation of the Jesuit order, the monastery and collegium passed to the Bernardines. In 1935, an organ was installed in the church, built by the Czech-Austrian firm Gebruder Rieger from South Moravia, which after the restoration of 1980-1987 is still operating.

The cell building of the Bernandine monastery has been occupied by the Sambir school of culture since Soviet times.

The building of the church of Saint Stanislav is used as an organ music hall. Concerts take place every Saturday at 11:30.

The Defense Church of Saint Stanislav the Bishop was founded in the Dunaiv in 1485 by Lviv Archbishop Yan "Vontroba" Stsheletsky.

Initially, the church was Gothic, which can be seen even now by the arrow-shaped portals and the Gothic white stone window. The church destroyed by the Tatars was rebuilt in 1585 by Archbishop Yan Solikovsky, as a result of which it acquired its current Renaissance forms. The church was reconstructed several times, the interiors were painted in 1766.

During Soviet times, the shrine was closed, but in 1992, after Ukraine gained independence, the church was returned to the Dunaiv Catholic community. Today, the Church of Saint Stanislav is served by the Society of Saint Frantsysk Salezky.

The Catholic Church of Saint Stanislav in Busk was built in 1768-1780 on the site of the old wooden parish church, which was burned by the Cossacks during the Liberation War.

The land plot and part of the funds for the construction were allocated by the Polish king Stanislav Augustus. The building in the Baroque style was designed according to one of the typical projects developed earlier by the famous European architect Bernard Meretin (similar churches have been preserved in Berezovtsi and Lopatyna). The church had four side altars: Saint Stanislav, Saint John Nepomuk, the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate and Saint Anthony of Padua. In the main altar there was a sculpture representing the Holy Trinity and a miraculous image of the Mother of God of the Holy Rosary. In 1608, Yuriy Vyshnevetsky presented this image to the Dominican church in Busk, after its closure, the icon was moved to the parish church.

In 1944-1946, the Church of Saint Stanislaus was closed, and a film library was placed in the building. Divine services resumed in 1991.

The Church of Saint Stanislav was founded in Shchyrets in the 14th century, and was rebuilt in its present form in 1556.

The temple burned several times. The last restoration was carried out in 1916 according to the project of Voytsekh Brettner.

The temple is rectangular in plan, single-nave, with a three-tiered tower under a tent on the western facade. The entrance to the church is decorated with a finely crafted portal. Once there were two loopholes above the choirs, which testified to the defensive nature of the building. Opposite the main entrance is a two-story bell tower.

The Church of Saint Stanislav is an active church of the Lviv Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine.

The Greek-Catholic Church of Saint Volodymyr and the Blessed Martyr Father Omelyan Kovch is consecrated in honor of the late martyr of the Greek-Catholic Church, who from 1922 to 1942 was the abbot of the Church of Saint Nicholas in Peremyshliany.

During the German occupation, he saved thousands of Jews, for which he was sent to a concentration camp, where he continued to perform the duties of a priest until his death.

In 2001, during the visit of Pope John Paul II to Ukraine, Father Omelyan Kovch was beatified.

The Greek-Catholic Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian, sanctified in 1953, impresses with its size.

Its construction, designed by the architect Yakiv Rudnytskyi, began in 1922 by order of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi.

The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian was painted by famous artists Zenoviy Ketsalo, Volodymyr Patyk, Roman Khoma, Serhiy Boreyko.

The wooden church of Saints Flor and Lavr in Kulchytsi was founded in the 15th century. It was completely rebuilt several times.

Construction of the current one began in 1904, but construction was delayed until 1935 due to the First World War.

The temple is small, cruciform in plan. The entrance part of the church attracts attention: a tall arched door above which you can see the image of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary and a canopy over the door that repeats the silhouette of the church dome, under which is placed a wooden cross, for some reason pointing downwards.

In 1992, an equestrian monument to Hetman Petro Sahaydachny was erected near the Church of Flor and Lavr.

The ancient defense church of Saints Nicholas and Anna in Bibrka, according to one version, was founded in 1402 by the legendary Polish knight Zavish Charnyi, the hero of Henryk Senkevych`s novel "Crusaders".

In the upper part of the walls of the western volume, loopholes have been preserved. The temple was destroyed during the invasion of the Tatars in 1621, but after some time it was restored. After thorough reconstruction in 1914-1922, the Nicolas church lost its original appearance. During the reconstruction, the western part of the building (XVII century) was preserved, the other parts were built anew.

The architecture of the Church of Saints Nicholas and Anna is extremely laconic. The only decorative element enlivening the western facade is a dull arcade on the pediment.

The Church of Saints Olha and Elizaveta is the highest church in Lviv (85 meters), competing in height with the Cathedral of Saint George. Previously - the church of Saint Elizaveta of Hungary.

The huge neo-Gothic church of Saint Elizaveta was built at the beginning of the 20th century. According to legend, it was named after the popular empress Elizaveta (Sisi), the wife of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Frants-Yosyf I. The architect Teodor-Maryan Talovsky used many elements of French and North German Gothic architecture: high pointed spiers, lancets, a vertical interior space. The portal is decorated with a sculptural composition by Petro Voytovych "Crucifixion with Adaptation", the interiors were worked on by the Lviv master Kazymyr Sikhulskyi.

During the Second World War, the temple was damaged, then closed. Since 1991, it belongs to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, rededicated as the Church of Saints Olha and Elizaveta.

The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in the city of Komarno was founded in 1848 on the site of an old wooden church.

After the First World War, the Peter and Paul Church was reconstructed in 1929 according to the project of the architect Vasyl Nahirniy.

The corner one-story building at the intersection of Mykola Mikhnovsky Street and Mykola Hohol Street in Stryi differs from the surrounding typical buildings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with bas-reliefs and sculptures on the facades.

Since 1952, the sculptor Kostyantyn Levchenko, the author of more than a hundred sculptures, has lived here, some of which are exhibited in museums in Canada, France, the Czech Republic, Romania and Ukraine, in particular in the Stryi Museum of Local Lore "Verkhovyna".

Levchenko's house houses 12 of his sculptures, including "Jesus Christ", "Donechka", "Taras Shevchenko", "John Paul II", "Mykola Hohol", "Mother of God", "Sich Riflemen" and others.