Cathedral of St. Nicholas, Kremenets

The first church, which later became the cathedral of St. Nicholas, mentioned in 1538 in the city of Kremenets . At the time, it was wooden and had the name of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.

In 1606, at the Church of the monks of the Franciscan order settled. In the first half of the 17th century there was already a monastery. In 1631, instead of a wooden built a stone church in the Renaissance style. After the Polish revolt in 1832 by order of Nicholas I Franciscan monastery was closed and all of its premises and property to the Orthodox temple. At the end of the same year his pereosvyatili in the cathedral parish church of St. Nicholas.

Cathedral of St. Nicholas is one of the oldest in Kremenets existing Orthodox churches. Apart from him, and the adjoining buildings of the Franciscan buildings until now preserved belfry consisting of two layers, and fragments of stone wall with niches, which were once the image of evangelical scenes.