St. Nicholas Church, Lviv

Church, towering at the foot of the mountain High Castle , considered one of the oldest buildings in the old city. It was erected in the 13th century. There is a version that the temple was built as a tomb Galician princes. It was established that he erected on the site of the old cemetery.

In ancient times, the temple was located in the heart of the city, close to the famous Lviv Old Market area . Stone building fulfilled and defense function, as evidenced by the thickness of the walls and small windows. Like a fortress, a temple stood at the main gate. Here seething life of the medieval city ...

Unfortunately, the church was unable to maintain the original look. From the 13th century the building was left alone foundations and fragments of walls of hewn white limestone.

Of the holy icon of the Virgin is kept and the image of Theodore Tironskogo. Both works date back to the 17th century. The severity and simplicity of the appearance of an ancient temple put him in some of the most amazing works of architecture school of Galicia.