Church of St. Nicholas

The wooden, three-part, three-tier church of St. Nicholas in Sasiv was built in 1731. It originally belonged to a small nunnery, which was closed in 1759 due to the small number of nuns. The church became a parish church. The monastery was famous for the miracle-working icon of the Virgin of Sassia in the 1680s–1710s, which the nuns took with them to the monastery in Slovit (now in the monastery in Lviv). In the interior of the Church of St. Nicholas, there is a beautiful high iconostasis. Its three lower tiers were painted in the 1680s, and the Sunday-Pentecost icons, the Order of Prayer and the Prophets were painted approximately in the 1730s and 1740s. The iconostasis is also distinguished by its skilful carving of decorative elements. The professional manner of painting the icons of the upper tier indicates that they could have belonged to the workshop of the Basilian order monks. The icons of the lower tiers are similar to the works of masters of the Zhovkva and Kamianka-Buzka schools. On the eastern wall of the nave of the church there is a painting from approximately 1730-1740s (partially restored).