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Virgin Mary Church

Virgin Mary Church

Church of Our Lady and St. Stanislaus - is one of the brightest and most important sights Komarnovskogo district in Lviv region. Beautiful buildings in different amazing architecture, unusual for most temples located on the territory of Ukraine. Furthermore, Church has sufficiently large dimensions as to height (maximum point equal to the height of storey building) and in width. The internal volume is divided into the main hall, where parishioners gather, and office space, offices, rooms.

Church of the Virgin Mary was built in the 1940s, when most of the locals was the Polish population professing Catholicism. After the Second World War, the borders of Eastern Europe have changed somewhat, and many Poles have left these lands. The church also expect changes, he became Greek Catholic, and that of the temple remains today.

Its unusual architectural design shall constructivism style church, of course, not without the influence of the Soviet regime. In those years, things were difficult with all religious matters, to build a Christian cathedral marked with crosses and domes are simply not allowed. Therefore, resourceful architects invented a compromise that satisfied both parties - the atheistic government and the community of believers. Particularly striking elements of worship - b ashni and high tower - to replace, respectively, the semi-circular wall and pyramidal roof.

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