Attractions of Ternopil district

The Church of the Holy Spirit was founded in Polupanivka in 1878 as a small chapel above a healing spring near the top of the Holy Mountain.

According to legends, there was an apparition of the Mother of God at this place, after which the source became a place of pilgrimage for Christians of various denominations.

Another legend tells of a local landowner who ordered a spring that flooded his fields to be filled with stones. After that, the landowner fell ill and went blind. When the spring was cleaned, the blind man washed his eyes with water and saw.

The current Church of the Holy Spirit was built over the chapel in 1989. The Catholic church and the Way of the Cross are located nearby.

The Greek-Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity was built in the 18th century on the site of shopping rows.

Over the course of two centuries, it was rebuilt several times. Initially, it had Gothic-Renaissance forms, but in the course of numerous reconstructions, it gradually acquired a modern appearance.

The relics of Saint John the Baptist are stored here, which in 1673 were presented to the Berezhany Voivode Synyavsky and were in the chapel of the Berezhany Castle, from where they were transferred to the Church of the Holy Trinity in the 18th century (before that, the relics of the saint were in Antioch, where they were taken by the apostle Luke, and from there they got to Constantinople). After the Second World War, the relics disappeared, but in 2000 they were found and put on display again for commemoration. Another shrine is the miraculous icon of the Roman Mother of God.

A monument to Taras Shevchenko was erected in front of the church.

The Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity in the late Baroque style is located opposite the Potocki Palace in Mykulyntsi and is connected to it by a maple avenue.

It was built in 1761-1779 according to the project of architect Avgust Moshynsky at the expense of Countess Lyudovika Potoska. The church of the Hofkirche royal palace in Dresden, Germany, where the architect studied, served as a model.

The decor of the temple and its elegant forms perfectly harmonize with the central facade of the palace and organically close the perspectives of the regular part of the park.

The original interior has not been preserved, because during the Soviet times the premises were used for economic purposes.

Today, the Trinity Church is active and belongs to the Mykulyntsi Catholic community. Next to the church is an old Polish cemetery with the graves of members of the Count family of Ray.

The ruins of the Church of the Holy Trinity are the main attraction of Pidhaitsi.

The church was built in 1634 by the Potocki magnates on the site of a previously destroyed church in 1463. The bell tower of the church (1643) was built in the Renaissance style and has a defensive tower. Belongs to the Roman Catholic Church.

Today, the state of the church is in a state of emergency, no restoration work is being carried out.

The parish church of the Holy Trinity and the Holy Intercession was founded in Zarvanytsia in 1738 by the efforts and funds of the then owner of the village, Petro Myonchynskyi.

Initially, it was a wooden temple named after Saint John the Baptist. A miraculous icon of the Mother of God was installed here, and in 1740 another image - the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which Lviv Metropolitan Atanaziy Sheptytskyi officially recognized as miraculous.

A fire soon destroyed the temple, but the miraculous icons were saved. A stone cross was erected on the site of the burnt temple, which has survived to this day. In 1747-1753, the brick church of the Holy Trinity was built. Miraculous icons were transferred here. In 1784, the church was painted by the artist Andriy Soletskyi.

The miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Zarvanytsia is located in the left aisle (a stone annex to the main building), the icon of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ is in the right aisle.

The mansion of the famous Polish lawyers Hromnytsky in Pidvolochysk was built in the 19th century.

In 1919, Symon Petlyura met with the command of the Ukrainian Galician Army at the Hromnytsky villa.

Currently, the mansion is home to the Omelyan Kovch Museum of Local Lore.

Two halls of the museum are dedicated to the history of the OUN-UPA liberation movement. The exposition includes 281 exhibits - personal belongings of the rebels, weapons, photographs, documents, models, paintings, triptych "Ukraine is invincible".

The Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary was built in Zaliztsi in 1889 as a chapel of the monastery of the Sisters of Saint Vincent de Paul.

During the Soviet rule, the church building was used as a warehouse.

Today it is an active Roman Catholic church.

The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin Mary was built in Zaliztsi (Zalozhtsi) in 1740 as a Catholic church. In the second half of the 19th century, the church was rebuilt as an Orthodox church.

A decorative dome is erected above the nave. The baroque belfry consists of four pylons connected by arches.

Today, the Intercession Church belongs to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

A monument to the Ukrainian writer and public figure Ivan Franko was erected in Ternopil in 1995.

It is located in the square behind the Dominican Church, on the site of the former gymnasium No. 1, where in 1902 the writer met with Ternopil gymnasium students.

Franko visited Ternopil several times, in particular. as a correspondent of the newspaper "Lviv Courier" at the regional ethnographic exhibition. He read "Moses" in the premises of the Municipal Brotherhood (now the Philharmonic), often stopped at the "Podilskyi" hotel on the way to the village of Vikno.

The author of the monument to Ivan Franko in Ternopil is the sculptor Ivan Sonsiadlo.

The wooden church of John the Theologian in Skoryky is an example of the Podillya school of folk architecture.

In the church there is an iconostasis in 7 rows.

The official date of construction is 1695, but there is a legend that in this church in 1649, before the campaign to Zbarazh, the Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytskyi together with the hetman made confession and received communion.

According to legend, the iconostasis and the "Last Judgment" icon (now kept in the Lviv Museum of Folk Art) were donated to the church by Bohdan Khmelnytskyi.

The memorial museum-house of Les Kurbas is located in the village of Stariy Skalat, where the memorial house of his grandfather, priest Pylyp Kurbas, has been preserved.

The childhood and youth years of the future outstanding Ukrainian director passed here.

Near the church where Pylyp Kurbas served, relatives of Lesya Kurbas are buried: grandfather and grandmother, father, younger brother Nestor.

The building of the city magistrate in Berezhany was erected in the middle of the XIX century. Its purely administrative functional role as a body of city self-government explains the finishing modesty of the facades.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the city museum was located on the ground floor of the building. The Magistrate's Assembly Hall was often used for various ceremonial events, in particular in 1898 the famous Ukrainian poet Bohdan Lepky delivered a speech here in honor of the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Aeneid" by Ivan Kotlyarevsky.

Nowadays, the premises of the building are occupied by the research department of the State Historical and Architectural Reserve in the city of Berezhany, the DIAZ exhibition hall, art school, district archive.

The Marian spiritual center in Zarvanytsia is the main shrine of the Greek Catholics of Ukraine.

A folk tale tells about a Kyiv monk to whom the Virgin Mary appeared in a dream and ordered him to found a monastery. At this place, a healing spring flowed and an icon of the Mother of God appeared, which was named Zarvanytsia. At the same time, a cave monastery was founded.

It is believed that the first church in Zarvanytsia was built in the 13th century by Prince Vasylko Terebovlyansky after his miraculous healing.

The written mention of the monastery dates back to 1458. In the 17th century, the Tatars destroyed the monastery several times, but the miraculous icon was preserved.

In 1754, Count Myonchynskyi rebuilt the Holy Trinity Church, which has survived to this day (it now houses the icon of the Mother of God of Zarvanytska). In 1867, Pope Pius IX crowned the Zarvanytsia icon, after which the monastery became a major center of pilgrimage.

During the Soviet rule, the monastery was razed to the ground, but local residents managed to save the icon. Until 1988, religious services were conducted secretly. Only in 1991 did the revival of the shrine begin.

On the slope of the mountain near the Strypa River, the majestic Cathedral of the Mother of God of Zarvanytsia with a four-tiered bell tower 75 meters high was built. Nearby - the gate church, the chapel above the spring and the singing field.

A complex of three humorous monuments was opened in the center of Ternopil near the Atrium shopping center in 2010 on the Independence Day of Ukraine.

Two of them are devoted to literary works, and the third to employees of communal services. The monument to the 12th chair is inspired by the satirical book "12 Chairs" by Ilf and Petrov. The monument to the invisible man refers to the novel of the same name by Herbert Wells. The plumber's monument is dedicated to the employees of the Ternopil water supply company.

Conceptually, the monuments are united only by the humor of the author of the idea - a Ternopil philanthropist, owner of a shopping center. The author of the works is Ternopil sculptor Dmytro Mulyarchuk.

The Church of the Mother of God of Tireless Help in Shybalyn was founded in 1925. The funds for the construction were allocated by local noblemen Yakub Potoski and Stanislav Vishnevskyi. The main altar was performed by Yan Voytovych.

The church was consecrated in 1928. However, already in 1945, after the establishment of Soviet power, the church was closed and turned into a warehouse. It still remains abandoned.