Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Chernivtsi
The first masonry church of central Chernivtsi, built in 1787–1814; a minor basilica since 2014.
Construction of the Roman Catholic Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross began in 1787 on the orders of the Austrian Emperor Joseph II. The building work took 27 years, and the church was consecrated on 29 July 1814. The tower clock was installed in 1818 at the expense of the townspeople and replaced with a new one in 1907. Inside are seven neo-Gothic altars and an organ that won medals in Vienna and Paris in the 1870s. The church remained open throughout the Soviet period, and in 2014 it received the status of a minor basilica.
20 Holovna Street, on the corner of Beethoven Street, central Chernivtsi. A working church: services and concerts in 2025 (Chernivetskyi Promin, 16.12.2025); no Mass schedule was found in a dated source. Tel. (0372) 55-07-10.