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GPS (LAT, LONG) :  50.05531567401415,
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Church name:

Church of the Holy Trinity

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Church of the Holy Trinity, Zhovkva town, Lviv district
Location:
Zhovkva town
Region:
Lviv region
Church type:
Wooden church
Build period:
1st half of the 18th century
Architect:
  • unknown
Iconostasis:
1st half of the 18th century
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Description:
Church of the Holy Trinity, Zhovkva town, Lviv district
Abstract:

The three-tiered wooden church was built in 1720 at the expense of the parishioners. The church is distinguished by slender proportions, a harmonious composition of spaces. It has three octagonal tops and a wide outside gallery. The building is one of the best examples of wooden sacred architecture in the Lviv region. The interior preserves an authentic baroque iconostasis made by masters of the Zhovkva school, which was the leading school in Galicia at the end of the 17th and the first decades of the 18th century. The six-tiered iconostasis impresses with professionalism of the icons, the harmonious colour, and the richness of the ornamental carvings. The authorship of the local icons of Christ and the Virgin Mary (1720s) is attributed to the famous master from Zhovkva – Vasyl Petranovych, other icons – Mykhaylo Rutkovych. The possible author of the carving of the iconostasis is a Zhovkva master Hnat Stobenskyy.

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