Churches

1610-1635. Teatralna str., 13. The Church of St. Apostoles Peter and Paul.

Jesuit CathedralJesuit Cahedral is an example of Lviv Baroque style and was erected at the time when the Jesuit Order was consolidating its position in the Western Ukraine.

At first, the Jesuits built a modest wooden church in Lviv in 1584 but in 1608 they opened a college attached to it and two years later began constructing the grandiose Church of St.Peter and St.Paul which was intended to enhance the Order's prestige.

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1903-1911. Address: 1, Kropyvnytskoho.

Church of St. Olha and ElizabethChurch of St. Olha and ElizabethAfter the tragic death of Austrian empress a church was erected to recur to her memory, and named after St. Elizabeth. After the War the church was not functioning. It was returned to believers as a sanctuary of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in independent Ukraine In the western part of the city this majestic building was erected in new Gothic style on the watershed of the Dniester and the Buh rivers. (1903-1911, arch. T. Talowski).

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Years: 1591-1631. Blessed: 1631. Ruska, 5. The church of Virgin Mary's Dormition and the Korniakt Tower.

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1363-1908.
7, Virmenska str.

Armenian ChurchArmenian church is one of the most ancient churches in Lviv. In 2001 this sacral place was returned to the renewed Armenian Apostle church. The name of the church was also renewed and became the Virgin Mary's Dormition church. There is an Armenian cemetery with old grave monuments (XVI-XVII) and the wooden chapel “Calvary” (XVIII) in the yard of the church.

The armenian Diaspora in Ukraine has around 150.000 people. One of the most important places, where Armenians lived for a long time, is Lviv, or Lwow, as it was called in soviet time.

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1407. Muzeyna str., 1.

Church of the Blessed Eucharist In a former Dominican Roman-Catholic church a liturgy was recommenced in 1997. It became Ukrainian Greek-Catholic church of the Blessed Eucharist. This church appeared in the Will century in form of late baroque, at the on the ruins of ancient Gothic Roman-Catholic church. During a long time the sculpture of the Virgin Mary of Alabaster, which is in Krakow now, was a protector of the church. It is known in several copies now.

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XVI century. Address: 32, Horodotska.

St. Anna's ChurchSt. Anna's church has been known since the XVI century. At that time it was the sacred place of tailors' workshop. In the XVIII century the pilgrims were coming here with prayers to the Wonder-working Icon of Our Lady. After the last war the church was closed and returned to believers only in the early 1990s.

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Year 1242. Bogdan Khmelnytsky str. , 28a

St. Nicholas' church is one of the oldest functioning Orthodox churches in Lviv. It has been known since the XIII century. The Wonder-working Icon of Saint Nicholas is preserved in the church. In the XVI century the Antiokhia's Patriarch loakim blessed this church by the part of saint's relics.

Year 1644. Bogdan Khmelnytsky str., 77. The church of Holy Great-Martyr Parascevia (Friday).

St. Parascevia's ChurchSt. Parascevia church was erected on the ruins of ancient Orthodox church in 1644. The masterpiece of Ukrainian art the high iconostasis with seventy icons of the XVII century is still preserved here.

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Year 1597. Vicheva Square, 2.

Church of All SaintsThe former Roman-Catholic church and the nunnery of the Benedictian Order, the masterpiece of the Renaissance architecture, became the Church of all Saints of the Protection of the Holy of the Studite Monastic Order. Here the activity of the nuns of Benedictian Order was revived. The part of St. John is the Golden mouth's relics .

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Year 1550. Bogdan Khmelnytsky str., 36

Lviv St. Onuphrius' ChurchThe monastery and church of St. Onuphrius was mentioned in the old Rus' times. In the XVI-XIX centuries it was the prominent centre of Lviv Christian life. Here was the place where the first book in Ukraine was published. After the war both the monastery and the church were closed and returned to the Vasylians' Order in 1990

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1642-1692. Vynnychenka str., 30.

The old church of the Lord's Presentation was erected in the XVII century, with the resemblance to Santa Susanna's church in Rome. In 1927 the coronation of the icon of Virgin's Unwearying Help took place here. This icon was blessed in Rome.

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1617. Lychakivska str., 49a.

St. Anthony's churchIn the eastern part of the city there is one of three functioning Roman-Catholic churches in Lviv. This is the St. Anthony's church. It was erected in trie XVIII century and reconstructed to its present appearance, preserving the features of baroque in its architecture and interior decoration.

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blessed in 1934. Address: 175, Lychakivska str.

The former Roman-Catholic church of the Ostrobrams'ka Virgin Mary is the monumental church in the form of Christian basilica. It was blessed in 1934. After the years of decline the sacral place was renewed as the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary's Cover. The church is under the care of Fathers-Salesians, who run missionary and educational activity.

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1660. 82 a, Lychakivska str.

Lviv, St. Peter's and Paul's Churchla-3008.JPGThe old Paulinian church was transmitted to the church of Orthodox confession in the XVIII century. In post-war time Father Volodymyr (Yarema), the future patriarch of Ukrainian Independent Orthodox Church — Dymytry, was working upon the wall-painting and the icons of the church.

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1897-1901. Korolenka str., 3.

St. George's ChurchIn 2001 the Orthodox St. George's church celebrates 100 years since it has been erected. The future president of Ukraine Mykhailo Hrushevs'ky and the famous professor of art Ilarion Svenits'ky were concerned to its erection at that time. The relic of the church is the icon of Our Lady from Tikhvin, which was created specially for church on Aphon.

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1607. Lychakivska str., 2.

The Ancient Church Of The Order Of Poor ClaresThe nunnery of the Poor Clares Order (XVII-XVIII) during the XIX century was closed for the Liturgies. After the World War II it suffered the same misfortune. In 1996 here was founded the Museum of. SacraL Baroque Sculpture — “The Art of Johann George Pinsel”. The workers of Lviv Art Gallery saved the sculptural works of this distinguished European master in 1960s -1970s. They were restored as the museum exhibits. These works are full of energy and spiritual power.

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1739-1777. Address: 5, Grushevskoho.

The transformation from old Catholic St. Nicholas church into the Orthodox sacral place did not have influence on the interior of the church of the XVIII century. The sculptural decoration of the altar in baroque style is accomplished by the low iconostasis. Outside the church harmonically blends with the mountainous landscape forming a unique view of the city.

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1897-1901. Address: 23, Starovoznesinska str.

Church of the Lord's AscensionThis church was erected at the foot of Chernecha Hora in Romanic-Gothic style (1897-1901, arh.W. Halicki) on the ruins of old wooden church known since XVI century.

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Year 1885. Ivana Franka, 56

The Church of Virgin Mary's Immaculate ConceptionIn 1913 the metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts'kyi invited the monks of the Order of Holy Redeemer (redemptorists) to Lviv. Their aim was to preach to the poorest. In 1990s the Order of the Redemptorists renewed its activity.

Note - Church of the Order of Redemptorists

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XVII . Vynnychenka 22.

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XII. Ploshcha Svyatoho Yura, 5.

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XIV. Mariji Snizhnoji, 1.

German colonists founded the old church of Mary the Snowy in the XIV century. After II W.W. it was closed. In independent Ukraine it was restored and conveyed to the Greek-Catholic community.

In Ukrainian: Храм Матері Божої Неустанної Помочі

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XIX. Katedralna str., 1. The Cathedral of Virgin Mary's Dormition.

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Started in 1600.
3, Soborna sq.

In February 1991 the former Roman-Catholic church of Bernardine monastery was returned to the believers. The monks of the St. Basil Order obtained it. The history of the church and monastery, which was ² wooden at first and then plastered, is connected ' with a name of the monk Jan from Dukta. Here in the XIX century, a future metropolitan of the ² Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Andrei Sheptyts'kyi was ordained. In the presbyter the grave monument of St. Jan from Dukla is placed. His image saved the city from enemy invasions time and again.

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