Founded in 18th century
Ukraine, Lavriv, Lviv Region
A Basilian Monastery, belongs to the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. It was founded in the middle of the XIIIth c. A unique monument of culture and national history as well as a sacral centre of the boyky area. The St. Onufrius Church which was most probably built by Lev, the son of Danylo, was one of the first trifoliate churches of Ukraine, following Byzantine-Aton samples. The church is characterized by the building centricity, a cross-like design and dome placement in the “golden section” point. In different times it combined the features of different styles: Roman, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, Classicism. The altar part in the three-leaved form and the space under the dome are dated back to the XIIIth c. by the archeologists. At the beginning of the XXth c. a church museum was established at the monastery, and it gradually acquired quite a large collection of icons of the XVth-XVIIIth c. (including the Bilyna wonder-working icon).
In Lavriv Monastery there was an archive and one of the largest libraries of Halychyna. Old printed books dated the XVIth-XVIIth c., as well as precious German- and Polish-language periodicals of the XIXth-XXth c. were kept in the reserves of the library