Armenian Church, Ivano-Frankivsk

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An 18th-century baroque church of Stanyslaviv's Armenian community.

Armenians settled in Stanyslaviv soon after the town was founded: according to T. Olszanski, Andrzej Potocki invited them from Moldavia and Transylvania to revive trade. The late baroque masonry church with two round towers was built in 1742–1762; the cornerstone was laid on 28 May 1743 by the town's owner, Jozef Potocki, who obliged the Jewish community to pay 1,000 zlotys a year towards the construction. The church was consecrated on 22 August 1763. After the great fire of 1868 (according to Olszanski, 1867) only the walls survived; during the rebuilding the towers were lowered and topped with simple domes. The icon of the Mother of God recognised as miraculous — a copy of the Czestochowa icon — was taken to Poland in 1946 (according to discover.ua, in 1945). In Soviet times the church housed workshops, later a museum of religion and atheism. In 1990 it was returned to the faithful; since 1992 it has been the Intercession Cathedral of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, now of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

Routes through this landmark

• Stanyslaviv on Foot