Complicated entrance to the churchyard through the courtyard street. Podvalna, 9. You can enter the church building directly through the Chapel of the Three Saints. However, unfortunately, there is 1 step (14 cm) that a person in a wheelchair cannot overcome without help.
In addition, only half of the doors are usually open, and a wheelchair cannot pass. In addition, the threshold is 14 cm high. You can enter the church only on Sundays (not in winter) or during holidays when the side doors to the church from the courtyard are open.
There is no toilet available to Persons with Reduced Mobility (PRM).
Description
The architectural ensemble consists of: Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kornyakta bell tower, and (in the courtyard) Chapel of the Three Saints – the first Renaissance architectural ensemble of Lviv. Historians claim that the current church is the fourth building in this city.
The tower was the first of the current ensemble to be built. The work began in 1572 at the expense of a wealthy Lviv merchant and customs official, the Orthodox Greek Konstantin Kornyakt. It was Korniakt who invited the Italian architect Peter from Barbona to the construction of the tower. This is the highest tower in the old city. Its height is 66 m. On the last tier is the Kyrylo Bell, the largest in Lviv. Its diameter reaches 1m 80cm. As many as eight men can shake it since it weighs about 4 tons.
The tower was of defensive importance, and it was a lookout point during sieges and fires.
The author of the project of the church and the primary supervisor of the works was the Lviv architect Paolo Dominici, an Italian who lived almost all his life in Lviv and was called here Pavlo Rimlyanin, together with him Wojtych Kapynos and Ambrosii Prykhylnyi were involved. The church was built in the Renaissance style, but local Ukrainian artistic traditions greatly influenced the architects. The construction lasted a long time, with significant obstacles, often needing more funds, and the fire of 1616 stopped the process for 11 years.
Finally, in 1629, the Church of the Assumption was completed, and two years later, it was consecrated by the Lviv Bishop Yeremiya Tysarovskyi. Among the guests of honor was Petro Mohyla - Metropolitan of Kyiv, founder of the Kyiv Collegium.
On January 20, 1707, Hetman Ivan Mazepa attended the service in the Assumption Church.
Address, contacts St. Ruska, 5/7, Lviv
