Basilian Monastery of the Nativity of Christ
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Basilian Monastery of the Nativity of Christ
The Basilian Monastery of the Nativity of Christ with a rich Baroque church of the Most Holy Heart of Christ was built in 1612 on the site of a wooden Basilian church. The first abbot was Metropolitan Dositheus, buried in a crypt under the church. Initially, the complex was made in the Renaissance style, had a defensive character. Perestroika, carried out in 1905, completely changed its appearance. Since the XVII century. preserved Renaissance carved white-stone southern portal. The magnificent iconostasis of the famous master I. Rutkovich is now stored in the National Museum in Lviv. The interior has preserved modernist wall paintings of 1911-39 by Y. Butsmanyuk, which, in particular, depict figures of the UNR and the West Ukrainian People’s Republic. In the image of Savaof, a portrait of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky is guessed. In the temple of the Heart of Christ the relics of the Holy Party are kept.