Church-tomb of the Vishnevetsky princes
Vishnevets, Ternopil region, Ukraine
Description:
The Ascension Castle Church in Vishnevets was the ancestral tomb of the Vishnevets princes. It was built in 1530. There was a small cemetery next to her. The church has been rebuilt many times and has been preserved to this day. According to legend, it was in her that False Dmitry I (Grigory Otrepiev) and Marina Mnishek were married.
In 1872-1873 the church underwent major repairs. In 1963, the temple was closed and it was robbed. In 1989, the temple was returned to the Orthodox Church.
The church with two domes is built in the shape of a ship. In its dungeons buried the ancestors of the princes Vishnevetsky. Inside the church there are two icons of the Most Holy Mother of God, which were donated by Princes Mikhail Servatius and Konstantin Vishnevetsky.