The beauty of Lviv sacrate relics captures with its glory.
During the Temples of Lviv tour you will visit three religious centers of Ukraine: Orthodox, Greek-Catholic and Armenian; pearl of Ukrainian baroque style St. George’s architectural ensemble; Onufriy monastery, where the first Ukrainian typed books were published: Apostol and ABC book by Ivan Fedorov; and a lot of other interesting Lviv temples.
Main holy places in Lviv:
- main Catholic cathedral of Ukaine (St. Maria’s Latin Cathedral, the only gothic temple of Ukraine that has been preserved from 14th c.)
- main Armenian church of Ukraine built in 1363
- main Greek-Catholic church of Ukraine (St. George’s church 17th c.)
The most interesting temples in Lviv:
- Assumption church – main Orthodox church of Ukraine in 16-17th c. The place of Petro Mohyla ordination into metropolitan of Kyiv. The first stauropegic church fraternity of medieval Ukraine
- St. Georg’s Orthodox church
- Dominican monastery with the temple of God’s flesh
- Bernardin’s monastery – fortress (1630)
- Benedikt’s convent, St. Onufriy’s Vasylian friary
- Carmelite’s monastery
- Jesuit temple – the first holy place in Lviv to have been built in baroque style (1630)
- Chapel of Lviv patricians 17th c. Boim and Campianus families
- religious themes in Lviv sculptures
- St. Mary’s monument on the main street of the city.
More places of interest in Lviv:
- museum of history of religion (on exhibition – all main religious trends in Ukraine: Orthodox, Catholisism, Uniatism, Judaism, Islam, Protestantism)
- Johann Pinsel museum of wooden church sculpture (mysterious craftsman of 18th c. who was called Lviv Michelangelo)
- Boyko’s and Lemko’s wooden Carpathian churches in open-air museums of wooden sculpture
*entrance tickets are paid additionally: Latin cathedral – 2 UAH, Armenian church – 1 UAH, chapel of Boim and Campianus families – 5 UAH/person.
Price per hour: English-speaking guide – 120 UAH
Foreign language speaking guide – 140 UAH
