Attractions of Sheptytskyi district

The Museum of History and Local Lore of the Radekhiv region began its work in 2004 in the premises of an ancient villa in the center of the city of Radekhiv.

More than 1,500 exhibits are housed in six halls. The exposition is divided into several sections: "On the history of the creation of the Ukrainian state", "Archaeological monuments and ethnography of the region", "Education and the history of school Radekhiv region", "Flora and fauna of the region", "Prominent people of Radekhiv region", "National liberation struggle in Radekhiv region".

Each room in the museum reproduces the family and social life of the region. Interesting is the interior of a peasant house with clothes, samples of pottery, ancient coins, tools, a model of a hiding place and Ihor Bilozir's corner.

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.

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 ensemble of the Dominican Sisters Monastery in the city of Belz consists of the majestic Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which is now the Greek Catholic Church of Saint Nicholas, and a dilapidated complex of monastic cells. An architectural monument of national importance.

The monastery of the female catholic order of the Dominican Sisters in Belz was founded in 1635 by the wife of the Vilnius castellan, Sofiya Khodkevych. The baroque brick church with two symmetrical towers was built in 1653. Four sculptures of saints are installed in niches on the facade: Ursula, Catherine of Siena, Rosaliya and another unknown saint. In 1743, the wooden cells were replaced by brick ones.

Under the power of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1785, the monastery was liquidated, the church was handed over to the Greek-Catholic community of the city and renamed the Church of Saint Nicholas. In 1893, a new iconostasis was installed, made by Peremyshl painters. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Lviv painter Mykhaylo Boyarsky painted the church, a mosaic image of Saint Nicholas was placed on the pediment.

For a short time after the Second World War, the temple became a Polish church again, but after the eviction of the Poles, it was closed, and the premises began to be used as a warehouse.

In 1991, the building was returned to the Greek-Catholic community of the city and restored. Now it belongs to the parish of the Transfer of the Relics of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker of the UGCC.

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 Cathedral of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Volodymyr was built in Sheptytskyi 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 Sheptytskyi.

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 Yuzef-Felitsian Potocki. The interiors were painted by Dzhuzeppe Baltsani and Stanislav Stroinsky.

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.

Art Museum "Human. Earth. "Universe" in Sokal was created in 1985 by the efforts of the family of Anatoliy ta Nataliya Pokotyuk, as well as Hryhoriy Kostyuchenko.

In 1990, the museum became a branch of the National Museum in Lviv, and since 1995 - a branch of the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion.

In ten museum halls, exposition exhibitions were opened: "Man and the Universe", "Holy Ukraine", "Jesus Christ - the greatest of the sons of mankind", "Under the protection of the Mother of God", "What is the truth", "In search of the truth", "Cosmic art", "Teaching of life - a call to the future", "Taras Shevchenko - an apostle of truth and a beacon of spirit", "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy".

The museum holds documents from the history of the Sokal region of the 17th-19th centuries, rare materials about the famous Ukrainian composer Viktor Matyuk (from the village of Tudorkovychi in the Sokal region), materials about the history of the churches of the Sokal region, spiritual educators and cultural figures, ceramics of the famous 19th century master Vasyl Shostopalets , samples of unique Sokal embroidery, household items of the 19th-20th centuries.

The Sokalshchyna Museum was opened in 1981 to mark the 30th anniversary of Sheptytskyi's accession to Ukraine.

About 1000 exhibits: a unique collection of works of folk art, household items, antique furniture. The specificity of the museum's exposition is that it presents the folk art of Sokalshchyna region, very original and original, which testifies to the sophistication and talent of Sokalshchyna residents.

The exposition includes "Dobryachyn" black-and-white embroidered shirts, bouquets of spring flowers on "Zavyshenski" shirts. Sokalshchyna is famous for its masters of embroidery: black embroidery is a rarity of the museum, each shirt is an exclusive product, and no ornament is repeated. Samples of wedding costumes impress with their sophistication - in one shirt the master used 6-7 different techniques.

The pride of the museum is an exhibition of unique samples of black ceramics and unique Easter eggs by Taras Horodetsky. Also interesting is the interior of Sokalshchyna okal housing in the late XIX - early XX centuries.

The oldest part of Belz, at the confluence of the Rechytsya stream with the Solokiya river at the entrance to the city from the Velyki Mosty side, is called Zamochok, because it was here that the historic Belz castle was located. Its first wooden fortifications were erected in the 11th century, but soon the city was destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars.

During the Lithuanian-Polish times, the castle was revived. It remained wooden, but was strengthened by powerful earth ramparts and protected by a defensive moat, the traces of which can still be traced. The castle has not been preserved to this day, but later religious buildings remind of it, giving the territory of the Zamochok a romantic look.

In 1906-1911, the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built on the castle grounds in the Art Nouveau style with Neo-Gothic elements, according to the project of the architect Kalikst Krzyzhanowski (now it is the church of Saint Nicholas of the OCU).

In 1933-1938, the architect Witold Rawski completed the complex of sacred buildings at the Zamochok. Next to the church, he built a belfry in the form of a castle tower in the Art Nouveau style with elements of romanticism. One of the historical coats of arms of Belz in the form of a griffin is placed on its facade. Another coat of arms of Belz - a harmash with a cannon - can be seen on the triarch entrance gate. The chapel of Saint Valentyn and the Way of the Cross were also built in the modern style in the form of a brick fence with small chapel towers resembling defensive walls.

The complex of sacred buildings of the Zamochok tract is part of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve in the city of Belz.