Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Stryi is the cathedral church of the UGCC. The church is decorated with its iconostasis, made in 1935-1937. The project, carving and gilding of the iconostasis belongs to the master from Kamianka-Buzka Mykhailo Nakonechnyi. The icons were painted by Vasyl Dyadynyuk, who drew on the traditions of Ukrainian medieval art. This is the only complete surviving iconostasis of this talented artist. The church building has its own history. The original church on this site belonged to the monastery of the Franciscans. It was wooden with a stone sanctuary and a sacristy. In 1785 the Austrian authorities liquidated the monastery and three Ukrainian churches in the city. The Ukrainian community was given the monastery church. In 1835-1846 the church was rebuilt (a nave was added to the sanctuary). Another reconstruction of the church took place in 1993-1996. A revered relic of the church is the miraculous icon of the Virgin of Liski painted in the last quarter of the 17th century. The icon was brought by Ukrainians evicted from their native lands in January 1946 to their relatives in Stryi.