Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth, Lviv
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Church of St. Olha and Elizabeth, Lviv
)The Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth is a
main rail station and the Old Town. It was originally built as a Western Catholic church and today serves as a Ukrainian Greek Catholic
church.
The church was built by the Latin Archbishop of Lviv,
Votive Church in Vienna. St. Elisabeth's, placed on a hill which is the watershed of the Baltic and Black Sea
, with its facade flanked by two tall towers and an 85 m belfry on the north side with imposing spires was envisioned as Lviv's first landmark to greet visitors arriving in the city by train.
In 1939, the church was damaged in a bombing raid but remained open until 1946. After the war, the building was used as a warehouse[2] and fell further into ruin, until it was returned to faithful with the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1991, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic church was established and the church was reconsecrated as the Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth.
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