Attractions of Lviv region

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 Church of Saint Yosafat is an active Greek Catholic church in Lviv. It was built in 1930 according to the project of the architect Yan Karol Zubzhytsky as the Roman Catholic Church of Saint Francis of Assisi of the Capuchin Fathers.

After the beatification of the bishop of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Mykolay Charnetskyi, his relics were transferred from the Lychakiv Cemetery to the Church of Saint Yosafat.

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.

The eclectic palace of the Semensky-Levytsky count family in Lviv was built in 1849 on the site of an old manor of the 18th century.

The ambassador of the Galician Diet, Konstyantyn Semenskyi, ordered the project from the Prussian architect Fryderyk Bauman. In 1877, the architect Otto Wagner rebuilt the palace in the French Baroque style by order of the privy councilor Stanislav Kostka Semenskyi-Levytskyi. The facade and interiors were decorated by the sculptor Petro-Vitalis Harasymovych.

The palace has side wings and a large courtyard. To the east of the main gate is the entrance to the stables and arena, decorated with two horse heads (Stanislav Kostka Semenskyi-Levytskyi was the president of the Galician Horse Breeding Commission).

Today, the building houses a boarding school.

The wooden Church of the Sending of the Holy Spirit in Verkhnia Rozhanka was built in 1804 by master Mykhaylo Bylen. This is a vivid example of sacred architecture of the Boyko type, an architectural monument of national importance. It is part of the "original Carpathian trinity" (churches in Skole, Verkhnia Rozhanka and Isai).

The previous church on this site existed in the 18th century. The date of construction of the current church is indicated by a carved inscription in Polish to the right of the main door: "Cerkiew zbudowana 9 juny 1804". In 1891, the temple was restored and painted. Restoration and replacement of the shingle covering was carried out in 1969 and 1977.

The church is three-log, built of spruce beams on the same spruce foundations. The tops are crowned with octagonal tents, completed with crowns. The church is surrounded by a wide porch, resting on the outcroppings of log cabin crowns.

The gilded iconostasis of 1891, made by the carver Heinrich Heiche, is preserved in the interior. The walls of the church are covered with his oil paintings, restored in 1969.

During Soviet times, the church was closed. In 1987, by decision of the Lviv Regional Council, it was transferred to the ownership of a religious community. Then the church was restored, repaired, the walls and ceilings were painted.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary was built in 1892.

Before that, there was a wooden church in Skole from the 17th century. The new stone Catholic church was built according to the project of the architect Alfred Kaminobrodsky and was donated by the parishioners.

After the Second World War, the church was closed, the premises were used as a warehouse.

In 1994, the church of Seven Sorrows in Skole was re-consecrated and restored.

Two oak trees in the center of the village of Dobriany were planted by local residents in 1914 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko.

Having decided at the general meeting to celebrate this date, the people of Dobriany instructed the most respected citizens of the village to plant three oak trees: Ivan Solonynka, Yosyp Biletsky, and Yosyp Fedun. In the autumn of 1914, when the village was on the front line, a bullet hit one of the oak trees and destroyed it. Therefore, only two trees remained.

In 1976, it was decided to install a commemorative plaque with a bas-relief image of Taras Shevchenko and fence the oak trees.