Attractions of Lviv region

The memorial museum of the artist Petro Obal in Stryi was opened in 2005 as a department of the local history museum "Verkhovyna". The basis of the collection was the collection of the artist's daughter, Vira Obal.

Part of the exhibition in the first hall is the artist's memorial working corner: a table, a bookcase, in which there are some books from the Obal family library and objects of applied art. The presented documents include a diploma and a certificate of graduation from the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, a certificate of secondary education, a certificate of a gymnasium professor, photographs, early drawings of the artist.

In the second hall, works from the time of imprisonment and the stria period of Obal's work (1950–1980) are exhibited. Letters to Oha's wife, written from prisons in Kazakhstan, as well as a drawing of a barrack in which the artist's workshop was located, deserve attention.

The first wooden Catholic church in the village of Navariia near Lviv was built at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, but it was soon burned down by the Tatars.

The same fate befell the second wooden temple.

Only in 1641-1645 was the stone Ascension Church built at the expense of Elzhbeta Humnytska. The temple was damaged during the Liberation War and in 1739 the shrine was partially dismantled. The money for the reconstruction was allocated by the Venyavskyi family, and in 1740-1748, the prominent Lviv architect with Italian roots, Bernard Meretyn, built a new Ascension Church on the old foundations in the then popular late baroque style. It was probably the first work of the master.

Finishing and decoration with the participation of the artist Antonio Tavelli continued for several more decades. A bell tower was built in 1766.

In 1991, the church, restored after the Soviet period, was re-consecrated as the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and after 2011 it changed its title to Saint Valentine, since the relics of this saint have been kept here since the 17th century.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Boryslav was built in 1929.

It is located at the exit from the city in the direction of Skhidnytsia (then it was the village of Mraznytsia).

The temple, according to the project of architects Serhiy Tymoshenko and Oleksandr Pezhanskyi, is built on a high plinth made of Ternopil stone, the floor is paved with Czech tiles, the main throne is made of white Carrara marble. The church is decorated with four entrance columns made of white stone, the domes of the church are covered with copper sheet. Artistic stained glass windows were executed by the famous impressionist artist Petro Kholodnyi under the supervision of the poet and artist Bohdan Lepkyi.

In 1962, the Church of the Assumption in Boryslav was closed by the Soviet authorities.

Reborn in 1991 as Greek Catholic.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (the former Church of the Ascension) was founded in Zolochiv in 1730 together with the monastery and the collegium of piary.

After the liquidation of the Order of piary by the Austrian authorities in 1788, the church was closed, and warehouses were placed in the building. In 1838, the Roman Catholic parish moved here from the Resurrection Church, which was transferred to the Greek Catholics.

In Soviet times, it was the only functioning church between Lviv and Zbruch.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is made in the magnificent late baroque style. During the restoration in 1878, a quadrangular tower with a clock made of hewn stone was erected on the main facade, a veneered pediment, a roof covered with galvanized sheet metal, and five stone sculptures were installed in the niches. The vaults of the nave and apse are richly decorated with carvings and paintings.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Slavsko was built in 1901 (architect Vasyl Nahirny) on the place where, according to legend, a cross fell twice, torn by the wind from an old wooden church on a nearby hill.

The bell tower at the cemetery survived from the wooden Assumption Church.

A monument to the writer Mykola Ustyyanovych was erected near the church.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in Zhydachiv in 1301.

At first it was wooden. In 1415, the brother of King Svydryhaylo, who owned these lands, decorated the temple. In 1602, the construction of the Assumption stone church was started at the expense of Mykola Lihenza and Yezhy Zholchynsky.

In 1676, the Polish king Yan III Sobeski celebrated the victory over the Turks near Zhydachiv in this church.

In 1895, there was a fire in the church, and only in 1938 was the reconstruction completed.

During Soviet times, the Church of the Assumption was closed, first a bus station was placed in it, and then a museum of local history.

Currently, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is active.

According to legend, there used to be a family estate on three hills outside the city, to which an underground passage leads from the church. Until now, the old "man's" stables have been preserved, which now contain classrooms and garages of the local professional lyceum.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Bilyi Kamin is one of the best works of the Lviv architect Amvrosiy Prykhylny.

The founders of the temple were Prince Yuriy Korybut Vyshnevetskyi and his wife Teresa.

The Church of the Assumption is surrounded by a stone wall with an exit gate and two bell towers. The wall paintings in the interior were made at the end of the 18th century.

In 1983-1991, the temple was used by the Lviv Art Gallery.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary harmoniously combines elements of Baroque and Renaissance architecture.

In the Armenian quarter of Lviv, between the streets of Virmenska and Lesi Ukrayinky, there is a cathedral, a bell tower, the palace of the archbishops and a nunnery. The buildings form a colorful "Armenian yard".

The construction was led by the Armenian architect Dorinh (Dorhi) at the expense of Armenian merchants. The image of the cathedral has many common features with the cathedral in the ancient Armenian capital of Ani. Over the centuries, the cathedral was renovated and extended. The oldest part is the eastern part (from the 14th century). Reconstruction in 1723 gave the building a baroque appearance.

In the altar part there are traditional "khachkar" stone crosses. The sculptural groups of the 15th century "The Belief of Khoma" and "Saint Sophia with Daughters" are of significant artistic value.

The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the main Greek-Catholic church of Stryi.

The history of the shrine originates from the church of the Franciscan monastery, known since 1608. In 1785, the Austrian authorities liquidated the Catholic monastery and handed over the religious building to the Ukrainian community.

The wooden Assumption Church was the oldest in Stryi, but due to its poor condition, it was dismantled and a new church was built on this site. The relics of Blessed Petro Verhun are kept here. The main shrine is the miraculous Lesko icon of the Mother of God.

The church-sanctuary of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin was built in Rudky in 1728 at the expense of the Urbanski family on the site of an earlier, wooden church, which was founded in the 14th century and was rebuilt several times.

It housed the ancient miracle-working icon of Our Lady of Rudkivska, known as the "Queen of Beschad". After the icon was crowned by the Pope in 1921, the Church of the Assumption in Rudky became one of the most revered sacred buildings in pre-war Poland. In 1946, the icon was exported to Poland (only a copy was returned to the church in 1995).

A bell tower of the 17th century, which remained from the time of the wooden temple, has been preserved nearby.

The church houses the tomb of the family of the famous Polish playwright Aleksander Fredro, whose estate was located in the nearby village of Vyshnia.

The Greek-Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin in Hlyniany is one of the oldest wooden churches in Galicia.

Officially, the date of its foundation is considered to be the 17th century, although the Orthodox parish in Hlyniany existed in the 15th century. The three-log, one-story church is located on the territory of the former northern suburb.

According to legend, Hetman Ivan Mazepa prayed here, and Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi planted two old ash trees in the yard.

In the Church of the Assumption there is an icon of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ (15th century), which is associated with the legend of self-renewal: in 1936, the enthroned image, blackened by time, was purified by itself and covered with gilding.

In 1937, a bell tower was built at the entrance to the yard.

After the Second World War, the church was closed and the premises were transferred to the museum of carpet weaving, but the miraculous image was preserved, people continued to come to it and hold services.

Currently, the Assumption Church is in need of restoration.

The wooden church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary in Tukholka was built in 1845-1858.

A three-log, three-storied church in the Boyko style stands on a low hill at the exit from Tukholka to the village of Klemets. A two-story bell tower was built nearby in 1862.

In 1961, the Assumption Church was closed by the Soviet authorities. Divine service was resumed in 1988.

The Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin in the city of Uhniv was built in 1695 at the expense of Khrystofor Dunin. The huge baroque church was designed by the architect Voytsekh Lenartovych.

During Soviet times, the Assumption Church building was used as a warehouse, but the church has been well preserved.

The Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin  (Voloska) in Lviv is a landmark of Galicia's Renaissance architecture.

For a long time, the temple was made of wood. The construction of the stone church began in the 15th century and lasted for more than four decades (architect Pavlo Rimlyanin) at the expense of the Ukrainian (Rus) community, as well as the Moldavian (Volochian) master Oleksandr Lopushanin, for which the church received its second name. The Orthodox community of the city was concentrated around the temple.

Built in 1572, the belfry (height 66 meters) is called the Kornyakt tower in honor of the Greek merchant and philanthropist who promoted Orthodoxy in Lviv.

In the interior there is a painting of the XVII-XVIII centuries, an iconostasis of 1773, stained glass windows by Petro Kholodnyi. The Chapel of the Three Saints (1578-1591) was combined with the Church of the Assumption in the middle of the 19th century.

The Parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary belongs to the Lviv Eparchy of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Turka was built in 1779 on the site of the first wooden Roman Catholic church, which was founded in 1730 on the initiative of the magnate Antoniy Kalynovsky, who owned the city at that time.

Kalynovsky invited the Jesuit fathers to Turka and entrusted them with the care of the city's small Catholic parish. In 1749, the Jesuit order was liquidated by the Austrian government and the Church of the Assumption became a parish church.

In 1906-1914, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was reconstructed according to the project of Stanislav Mayerskyi. After the Soviet period of desolation, in 1992 the Church of the Assumption was returned to Turka Roman Catholics.