Church of St. Elizabeth

Church of St. Elizabeth
Ukraine, Lviv
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Church of St. Elizabeth

Church of St. Elizabeth
Ukraine, Lviv
The Church of St. Elizabeth is a neo-Gothic cathedral in Lviv, on Kropyvnytsky Square, next to Horodotska Street. According to legend, the church was named after the popular Empress Elisabeth (Zizi) of Habsburg, the wife of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary Franz Joseph I.

Erected in 1903-1911. The construction was led by the architect K. Talevsky. The imitative neo-Gothic style of the cathedral repeats many elements of French and North German Gothic architecture with elements of the Romanesque style: high pointed spiers, lancet windows, a portal with a large rose in the center, an internal vertical space.

Piotr Voitovich, whom the Poles called the modern Phidias, decorated the church with the sculptural composition "Crucifixion with the Present". Lviv master Kazimir Sukholsky worked on the interior decoration project. In 1926, one of the largest organs in Poland was installed in the temple, made by the well-known Polish company of the brothers Dominik and Vaclav Bernacki.
At the outbreak of World War I, the Austro-Hungarian government confiscated church bells. During the Ukrainian-Polish war of 1918-1919, the church was damaged by Ukrainian artillery. In 1939, an aerial bomb exploded near the temple, damaging the spiers and walls. In 1946 the church was closed, the remains of the organ were dumped in the choir stalls. In the 1970s, the building was turned into a warehouse.

Since 1991, it has been owned by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and is called the Church of Saints Olga and Elizabeth.

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Traveled 4 years ago
Rating 8
The temple was built in memory of the wife of Emperor Elizabeth of Bavaria, or Empress Sisi, as she was popularly called at the time. The history of their relationship with Franz Josef has become the basis of many films and theater productions. On September 23.1903, Emperor Franz Joseph I laid the first stone in the construction of the temple. Teodor-Maryan Talovsky, a professor at Lviv Polytechnic, became the designer and responsible for the construction. He was a supporter of neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque trends in architecture, as evidenced by his numerous works in the cities of western Galicia.
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Traveled 10 years ago
Rating 6
The relatively new church (1911) is located on a crowded, bustling and cramped square. Quite far from the center, so it is unlikely to get into your itinerary. But it is convenient to visit if you stomp from the station to the center on foot.
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