Attractions of Bolekhiv

The city hall of Bolekhiv in its current form was built in 1863, although it was laid back in the 18th century.

Bolekhiv had the Magdeburg right since 1603 according to the privilege granted by the Polish king Sigismund III.

The city magistrate was stationed here on the corner of the central square. The small, elegant building of the Bolekhiv City Hall has a clock tower with a figured top.

Recently, the town hall was restored, new chimes of the work of modern Lviv master Oleksiy Burnaev were installed on the clock tower.

To this day, the town hall is used for its intended purpose - it houses the Bolekhiv City Council.

A residential building in the Art Nouveau style on Yevhena Konovaltsya street, near the turn towards Bubnyshche, is the most interesting example of Bolekhiv civil architecture of the 19th century.

A tower with a high spire gives a romantic look to a one-story house.

Currently, it is one of the buildings of the Bolekhiv city hospital.

The Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary was built in Bolekhiv in the 1820s on the site of an old church that existed from the 16th-17th centuries.

The first church was wooden. A new church was built in its place in 1730-1738, but it collapsed due to engineering miscalculations.

The present Assumption Church in the Art Nouveau style was closed in Soviet times, used as a sports hall, then a boiler room.

In 1994-2000, the church was restored. Today it belongs to the Catholic community of Bolekhiv.

The building of the great synagogue in Bolekhiv was built in 1789-1808.

Before the Second World War, more than half of the population of Bolehov consisted of Jews, but almost all of them were exterminated by the Nazis.

In Soviet times, the synagogue premises were used as a club. The building is currently in a state of disrepair.

The Bolekhiv City History Museum named after Roman Skvoriy is located in a small old building in the central part of the city, which is an architectural monument of local importance.

The museum is named after Bolekhiv local historian Roman Skvoriy, who founded this institution in 1967 (a memorial plaque has been installed).The basis of the exposition was the collection of objects collected by Skvoriy, related to the life and social activities of the well-known resident of Bolekhiv, activist of the gender movement Nataliya Kobrynska (since 2005, this selection is presented in a separate museum of Nataliya Kobrynska).

Currently, the museum's exposition consists of six sections: "History of the Bolekhiv city", "Boykos Room", "Development of industry, education and culture in the 20-30s of the 20th century", "Second World War, victims of Nazi and Bolshevik occupation", "National and spiritual revival of our region", "The struggle of the Ukrainian people for the establishment of their statehood".

Among the exhibits: fragments of handwritten liturgical books of the 17th century, a series of photographs of sculptor Mykhaylo Chereshnevsky and Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, notes of Taras Bobrynsky with Nataliya Kobrynska's own stamp, etc.

A monument to ukrainian sich riflemen, artist, sculptor and poet Mykhaylo Havrylko was erected near the museum.

The Cathedral of the Holy Women of Myrrh was built in Bolekhiv in 1908 on the site of an old wooden church.

The temple is built with three domes, one of the domes is large, and the other two are slightly smaller and absolutely identical to each other. Church windows are made in an elongated arched form, which gives them elegance. To the right of the central entrance to the church is a fairly large chapel built in the same style as the church. Outside, the church has a gray color, and its central entrance is decorated with three icon paintings. The domes on the church also have an unusual color: the upper part of each dome is painted blue, and the lower part is gold.

The priest Ivan Ozarkevych, who came to Bolekhiv in 1884, was engaged in the construction of the new church. In 1909, the building of the new church was consecrated by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi.

In Soviet times, the church did not function and was closed to parishioners. In the spring of 2009, in honor of the celebration of the centenary of the church, the church of the Holy Myrrh-bearers received the status of a cathedral. Belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Cathedral of the Holy Women of Myrrh is an architectural monument of local importance.

The Museum of the Ukrainian writer Nataliya Kobrynska is a branch of the Bolekhiv City History Museum.

The initiative for its creation belongs to Bolekhiv local historian Roman Skvoriy, who for a long time collected materials about the life and social activities of this famous activist of the gender movement, the founder of the Society of Ruthenian Women.

Nataliya Kobrynska lived in Bolekhiv for the last 30 years of her life. Here she wrote most of her literary and critical works on current topics of those times, as well as several works for the future collection "Tales".

The museum is located in the former building of the synagogue. The following sections are presented in the exposition: "Beleluya", "Bolekhiv during the time of Nataliya Kobrynska", "Nataliya Kobrynska in the circle of contemporaries", "Memorial corner", "Bolekhiv honors the memory of the writer", "Nataliya Kobrynska and Ukrainian Sich Riflemens", "Nataliya Kobrynska and Ivan Franko".

A monument to Nataliya Kobrynska was erected in front of the museum.