Dominican Church, Lviv
The Dominican church and monastery (Ukrainian: Домініканський костел і монастир, Dominikanskyi kostel i monastyr, Polish: Kościół i klasztor Dominikanów we Lwowie) in Lviv, Ukraine is located in the city's Old Town, east of the market square. It was originally built as the Roman Catholic church of Corpus Christi, and today serves as the Greek Catholic church of the Holy Eucharist.
History
The
In 1749 Józef Potocki laid the cornerstone for the present day Baroque church, commonly attributed to Jan de Witte. Between 1756 and 1761 Mikołaj Bazyli Potocki donated 236,000 złoty to the church and the Dominican monastery in Lviv, where his mother was buried.[1] These donations funded the Potocki chapel in the church. The church was consecrated in 1764 by the Latin archbishop of Lviv Wacław Hieronim Sierakowski.
The Dominicans managed to survive the reign of the Austrian emperor
After World War II, the complex was occupied by the Soviets, used as a warehouse, and in the 1970s changed into a museum of religion and atheism. With the collapse of the Soviet Union the church was given to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and now serves as a parish church. The monastery, however, has not yet been returned and still serves as a museum (renamed The Lviv Museum of History of Religion).[2]
The church resembles the
Before 1946, the church contained a miraculous icon of the
.In 2019, the Dominican Church was the location for the Gregorian's music video for their song Viva la Vida.[3]
External links
- Media related to Dominican church, Lviv at Wikimedia Commons
- Interior 360° panorama
References
- ^ Sadok Barącz. Pamiątki buczackie, Lwów, Drukarnia «Gazety narodowej», 1882, 168 p., P. 57. pl
- ^ "Home". museum.lviv.ua.
- ^ Gregorian "Viva La Vida" (Official Music Video) – Album out November 22nd (Youtube).