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Bernardine Church, Hvizdets

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Bernardine Church, Hvizdets

Photo: Еколог Світлана · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

A baroque friary of 1715–1735 with sculptures of the Pinsel circle — in emergency condition.

In 1715 Prince Michał Puzyna founded a wooden Bernardine friary here; after a fire in 1728 the masonry church and cells were built in 1721–1735. The plastered church with a transept has two three-tier towers on the west facade and a portal with paired Corinthian columns; the gate belfry was added in 1899–1902. The church was adorned with twelve wooden sculptures attributed to Johann Pinsel without firm proof of authorship: three are kept in the Prykarpattia Art Museum in Ivano-Frankivsk, two from the facade in Lviv. After 1945 the church served as a cement store, granary, hospital and music school; in 1991 it was returned to the Roman Catholic community. A monument of national significance, but there is no money for restoration — the vault has a deep crack.

Services have been moved to the friary buildings; the church itself is closed for regular worship (September 2025). View from outside; inside by arrangement with the parish.

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