St. Nicholas's Church is the centerpiece of the Lviv Museum of Folk Architecture and Culture, better known as
Shevchenkivskyi Hay. It is also part of the
Lavra
A lavra or laura ( el, Λαύρα; Cyrillic: Ла́вра) is a type of monastery consisting of a cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the center. It is erected within the Orthodox and other Eastern ...
of Saint John of the
Ukrainian Studite Monks. This traditional tripartite timber church, encircled by a wooden fence, was transferred in 1930 to
Lviv
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukrain ...
from
Kryvka
Kryvka ( ua, Кривка, pl, Krywka) is a village (''selo'') in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, in south-west Ukraine. It belongs to Borynia settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.
Kryvka was established as a private village in the late ...
village, now in
Sambir Raion
Sambir Raion ( uk, Самбірський район) is a raion in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Sambir. Population: . It was established in 1965.
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, t ...
, Lviv Oblast. It was originally built by
Boiko carpenters in 1763. During the
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
the church was damaged by a shell that pierced the upper gallery.
See also
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Wooden Churches of Ukraine
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Carpathian Wooden Churches
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Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland
The wooden churches of southern Lesser Poland () of the UNESCO inscription are located in Binarowa, Blizne, Dębno, Haczów, Lipnica Murowana, and Sękowa ( Lesser Poland Voivodeship or Małopolska). There are in fact many others of the region wh ...
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Vernacular architecture of the Carpathians
The vernacular architecture of the Carpathians draws on environmental and cultural sources to create unique designs.
Vernacular architecture refers to non-professional, folk architecture, including that of the peasants. In the Carpathian Mountain ...
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St. George's Church, Drohobych
References
* Памятники градостроительства и архитектуры Украинской ССР. Киев: Будивельник, 1983–1986. Том 3, с. 84.
File:Львів, Шевченківський гай, Церква з с.Кривки Турківського р-ну 1763 р. (7).jpg, Kryvka, Turka district, L`viv region, St Nicholas church, 1763
File:Львів, Шевченківський гай, Церква з с.Кривки Турківського р-ну 1763 р. (10).jpg, Kryvka, Turka district, L`viv region, St Nicholas church, 1763
File:Львів, Шевченківський гай, Церква з с.Кривки Турківського р-ну 1763 р. (11).jpg, Kryvka, Turka district, L`viv region, St Nicholas church, 1763
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