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Dormition Church

Dormition Church

Paolo Romanus, Wojciech Kapinos & Amvrosiy Prykhylny

Photo: Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Location
Old Town, Lviv, Ukraine
Client / Owner
Lviv Dormition Brotherhood
Year
Completed 1629
Access
Public
Typology
Spiritual

The Dormition Church in Lviv's Old Town was initiated by the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood and built from 1591 to 1629 on the site of a ruined church. The infobox names only Paolo Romanus as architect, while the text also credits Wojciech Kapinos and Amvrosiy Prykhylny. The infobox gives the style as Renaissance (Mannerism).

The Korniakt Tower, funded by the Greek merchant Constantine Corniaktos, was built in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with the text giving both 1571 to 1578 and the 1570s. It reached its present height of 213 feet (65 m) after a fire in 1695. The text calls the tower Mannerist.

Corniaktos also funded the Chapel of the Three Hierarchs, dated 1574 to 1591, whose richly decorated facade was designed by Piotr Krasowski. It is an active church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

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