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Dominican Cathedral

Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
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About Dominican Cathedral

The Dominican church and monastery in Lviv, Ukraine is located in the city's Old Town, east of the market rectangular. It became originally constructed because the Roman Catholic church of Corpus Christi, and these days serves because the Greek Catholic church of the Holy Eucharist. The Dominican Order first arrived in Lviv in the course of the 13th century and the primary wood church is said to had been built in 1234 within the Low Castle, founded via the spouse of Leo I of Halych. That church burned down at some point of a struggle in 1340.

A new Gothic church, similar to the parish church in Kazimierz Dolny, become built on the existing site online in 1378 and later rebuilt after a fire in 1407 in conjunction with the monastery homes. During the 16th century the complex turned into ravaged by using numerous fires, nevertheless it endured to step by step rise in prosperity. In the 18th century the church's ceiling began cracking and it become determined in 1745 that the church had to be taken aside and replaced with a brand new one.

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