Church of St. Paraskeva

The Church of St. Paraskeva can be seen in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. This church is the first Orthodox stone temple in Chernivtsi. The history of the church begins in the XV century. It was then that a wooden temple was built, called the Church of St. Leca. The construction of the stone church of St. Paraskeva on the site of a wooden church lasted from 1844 to 1860. The temple was designed by architect A. Pavlovsky on the type of Serbian temples of the XV century. The church was consecrated in 1862.

In 1864, a memorial service was held in the church of St. Paraskeva in memory of Taras Shevchenko, dedicated to the third anniversary of his death. In Soviet times, there was a chess club in the church. Today it is an active church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate.

The church is crowned with a majestic dome. Its facades and walls are surrounded by an arcature belt. Previously, all the windows were stained glass, of which today only fragments remain.