The Monastery of Dominicans on this site was founded in the XIII century, at the request of the wife of Prince Lev Danilovich Ukrainian , Hungarian, Princess Constance , who was Catholic in a foreign country and longed for his faith. From the XV to the middle of the XVIII century there was a church built in Gothic style.
The church and the square in front of him broke out in 1559 is a war bride with artillery and all the details of military strategy. Mogul Lukas Gurko seek the extradition of his monastery , which he considered his lawful wife - a wealthy heiress of Poland, Galshki Ostrog , who hid behind the walls of the Dominican monastery .During the war a few weeks stopped all trade in Lviv, and irritated the king gave orders to stop the war. At the end of the water had been cut , leading to the monastery, and thus ended the siege : Galshku gave Lukash .
Because of the emergency condition of the Gothic Dominican church was dismantled in 1748 .The new church , reminiscent of the Church of St. Charles in Vienna, in 1748-1764 years , designed by the military engineer , artillery, Gen. John De Witt in piznobarokovomu style. In those days there was a good tradition to keep the previous building destroyed everything of value that only you can save.To our times in the southern part of the temple you can see the alabaster tomb of the XVI century - the memory of an old gothic church, which has disappeared 260 years ago .
Inside the temple a number of headstones, headstone Dunin- Borkowski Countess of world- Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen ( 1816 ).Lviv school of sculpture is a monument to the Governor of Galicia Shimzera Gower ( 1824 ). 1880 is a monument to the famous Polish artist Artur Grotgera sculptor Gadomskii .
In the Soviet time the church was closed and Corpus here, as in many other churches of Lviv , staged a warehouse, and in 1970 opened the Museum of Religion and Atheism and installed inside the temple suspended under the dome of the Foucault pendulum , whose deflection confirmed process Earth's rotation.The museum worked cinema events , where he lectured on the topic and demonstrate the atheistic atheistic science-fiction movies.
Since the 90 's a Dominican church was Greek- Catholic church of the Holy Eucharist , particularly popular among the intelligentsia of Lviv and the national conscious youth.
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