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Vul. Bohdana Khmelnytskohoho, 36 – St. Onuphrius Monastery
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The monastery building is located on the old territory of Lviv of the princely rule, at the foot of Castle Mountain. It creates a single architectural ensemble with st. Onufriy’s Church and bell tower. There are no clear style features, since the construction was underway in different periods. The main construction dates are: 1683, 1693-1698 (building of defence walls), the end of the eighteenth-beginning of the nineteenth centuries (reconstructions) and 1998 (restoration with a partial reconstruction).
The graduating diploma project by Lviv sculptor Anatolii Halian, graduate of the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (now the Academy of Art, 2009), was placed in the courtyard of St. Onufria church on B. Khmelnytskoho Street in 1971. The work is a three-figured thematic composition of a printer and his apprentices. The church itself – where Ivan Fedorov was buried in 1583 – used to house the Museum of the History of Ukrainian Books and Printing, a branch of the Lviv Picture Gallery. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the monastery and St. Onufria Church complex was returned to its former owners, the Basilian order. The Museum of Printing, which is now known as the Museum of Early Ukrainian Handwritten Books, is currently located in the park that surrounds the Pototski Palace on Kopernika Street 15, with a sculptural composition "First Printers" in front of the entrance to the museum.
The St. Onuphrius monastery in Lviv consists of a complex of buildings including a church, a belfry gate and monks’ cells which are owned by the Most Holy Saviour Province of the Basilian Order in Ukraine. It is located in the oldest part of the city existing since the times of the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia. The church is one of the oldest monastery churches; it is associated with well-known historical persons (a prince of Moldavia), clerics, members of the Lviv Stauropegion brotherhood, noted architects (Franz Trescher, Edgar Kováts), sculptors, carvers (Andriy Koverko), painters (Luka Dolynsky, Marcin Jabłonski, Modest Sosenko), printing pioneer Ivan Fedorovych (Fedorov). Some prominent figures of the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries from Lviv and Ukraine are buried in the church and near it.
According to the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR number 970 dated 24 August 1963, the St. Onuphrius church was entered in the National list of monuments under protection number 364/1.
St. George Cathedral of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is the main building of the Sviatoiurivska Mountain construction complex and is one of the most dominant features of the Lviv panorama. The cathedral was built over the course of 1744-1761 (by the architects B. Meretyn and K. Fesinger) and was restored in 1905-1911, 1933, 1980 and 1999-2001.
Vul. Kopernyka – monument to the First Printers by the Book Museum
Vul. Bohdana Khmelnytskoho, 36 – The St. Onuphrius Church of the Basilian Monastery
Pl. Sv. Yura, 5 – St. Yuriy (St. George) Cathedral
Architecture
This brick two-story building is shaped as an elongated rectangular. It is a monastery building of a defence type. The fragments of the old fortification are adjacent to the monastery’s building. The old ceilings have been partially preserved.
Today the building houses cells of the monks of the Order of St. Vasyliy the Great of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Sources
The entry was developed within the project "Galiciana", 2001-2002
