Attractions of Ternopil district

The wooden church of the Holy Apostle John Theologian is the main attraction of Zhukiv.

The temple on one of the village hills was built in 1873 (according to other sources - in 1803). It was transported to Zhukiv from Naraiv, where it was originally built. The inscriptions "Zhukiv 1928" and "Shumlyany 1928" are embossed on the tin on the domes above the nativity scene and the altar. It is possible that it was in 1928 that the tin covering of the temple was installed and the inscriptions were made.

Next to the church of the Holy Apostle John the Theologian there is an old wooden bell tower, very impressive and small-bellied, which is typical for bell towers of those times and is not characteristic of modern churches.

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 Berezhany 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 of the Church of the Holy Trinity is the miraculous icon of Our Lady of Rome.

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

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 Holy Trinity 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 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.

Kozova Castle was built in the 16th century by the noble Potocki family, who owned the town of Kozova at the time. The fortifications with defensive moats, stone walls and towers were located on a raised cape at the confluence of an unnamed tributary into the Koropets River.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, the castle was subjected to numerous Tatar attacks and was eventually completely destroyed. Near its remains, the new owner of Kozova, August Aleksandr Moszyński, built a palace-residence in 1755 (now it is an administrative building). And the castle ruins in the 19th century were used to build a rosolis (rose liqueur) factory of Count Henryk Szeliski. Later, a brewery operated here, then a soft drinks factory and a regular warehouse.

Now the abandoned buildings of the former Kozova Castle are taken care of by the public organization "Institute of Urban Culture". It is planned to revitalize the building and transform it into a modern multifunctional cultural center of the Kozova hromada.

The Kozova Local Lore Museum is located in the center of the village of Kozova. It is planned to move the museum's exhibits to the premises of a former synagogue, which was converted into a cinema during the Soviet era.

The museum's ethnographic collection tells the story of the life of peasants at the end of the 19th century. The exhibition features ancient embroideries, icons, household items, historical photographs, old prints, etc.

The People`s Lepky Family Museum was opened in the village of Zhukiv next to the previously erected monument to Bohdan Lepky in 1995 on the initiative of a local teacher, local historian and composer Vasyl Podufaly with the help of the Lepky family from the USA.

The Lepky family annually conducted cultural and educational activities in the Berezhany region, in particular in Zhukiv, where they lived from 1891 to 1901.

The five exhibition halls of the museum present unique exhibits about the Lepky family, the sons of Father Sylvester Bohdan, Mykola, Levko and other family members.

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.

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.