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March 18, 2022

Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lviv (colloquially Latin Cathedral) - one of the oldest churches in Lviv, located at the south-west corner of the Lviv market square. The construction of the church began in the place of an older wooden one in the 1660s, and construction was carried out in the middle of the 15th century. The three-nave building in the Gothic style is 67 m long and 23 m wide, and in some elements its builders have been modeled after St. Mary's Church in Krakow.

The seat of Lviv archbishops of the Latin rite. Parish church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish.

The construction of the temple began around 1360 during the reign of King Casimir III the Great. The presbytery was built the earliest, and it was sealed in 1404. The church was consecrated a year later in 1405 by the Przemyśl bishop Maciej Janina. Initially, the church did not have the rank of a cathedral, it did not become one until 1412, when Lviv became the bishop's seat. At the same time, work was carried out on the tower part, while the nave was covered with a vault only in 1481. In 1440, the first chapel of the Buczacki family was completed. After the great fire of Lviv in 1527, the cathedral's vault in the naves was collapsed, made by a master stonemason from Wrocław, master Joachim Grom (Gran)

On April 1, 1656, King John II Casimir made his vows in Lviv in front of the miraculous image of Our Lady of Graces in this cathedral, and on October 21, 1677, the later Polish king, Stanisław Leszczyński, was baptized in the cathedral.

In the years 1765–1772, during the reign of Archbishop Wacław Sierakowski, a thorough restoration of the cathedral was carried out, removing many old gothic and renaissance tombs, epitaphs and altars, plastering walls and gothic pillars, giving the temple a late baroque character with a rococo admixture (archbishop Sierakowski consecrated the temple in April 1776). The Marian-themed paintings covering the walls and vaults of the naves (by Stanisław Stroiński) come from the years 1771–1775. In 1777, one of the two towers (65 m high) received a rococo helmet. At the end of the 19th century, the chancel was renovated in the Gothic style according to the designs of Julian Zachariewicz, and stained glass windows were made (partly according to the design of Józef Mehoffer). The organ made by Jan Śliwiński comes from 1899 (three years earlier this organ builder also made a small organ in the presbytery). In 1910, the cathedral received the title of minor basilica by Pope Pius X. In 1917 the cathedral's roof made of copper was confiscated by the Austrians, leaving only the copper on the tower.

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazylika_archikatedralna_Wniebowzi%C4%99cia_Naj%C5%9Bwi%C4%99tszej_Maryi_Panny_we_Lwowie

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March 18, 2022

Very beautiful cathedral right on the market square

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Latin Cathedral

1. Market Square, Lviv – Lviv National Opera loop from Хорущина

2. Taras Shevchenko Monument – Lviv National Opera loop from Львів-Головний

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