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GPS (LAT, LONG) :  49.91718124,
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Church of the Holy Archangel Michael

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Church of the Holy Archangel Michael, Zapytiv village, Lviv district
Location:
Zapytiv village
Region:
Lviv region
Church type:
Brick church
Build period:
1st half of the 20th century
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Iconostasis:
2nd half of the 20th century
Wall painting:
2nd half of the 20th century
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Description:
Church of the Holy Archangel Michael, Zapytiv village, Lviv district
Abstract:

One of the best majestic examples of church architecture of the interwar period, designed by Ivan Levynskyi's nephew Lev Levynskyi in 1936-1941 in the spirit of searching for a bright monumental image and expressive silhouette of the Ukrainian church, based on the principles of rethinking Byzantine-Romanesque architecture and Cossack Baroque. It is an example of Lev Levynskyi's late authorial style, when the architect reached the maximum in the realization of his concept of monumental church architecture. The main decoration of the church interior is an ensemble of 33 stained glass compositions created in a laconic stylistic manner with the addition of diamond cross compositions based on constructivist principles. The stained-glass windows with the images of St. Nicholas, the Archangel Michael, and especially Josaphat Kuntsevych are particularly noteworthy. The interior painting of the church was created in two historical stages - in the late 1970s and in the early twenty-first century. The high four-tiered iconostasis contains icons painted by Karlo Zvirynskyi.

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