St. George's Church in

Drohobych Drohobych ( ; ; ) is a city in the south of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Drohobych Raion and hosts the administration of Drohobych urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. In 1939–1941 and 1944–1959 it w ...

is one of the oldest and best preserved

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churches of Galicia. The church is a monument of Galician wooden architecture of the late 15th – early 16th centuries, one of the best preserved and one of the best monuments of ancient Ukrainian sacral architecture. Built in the 15th century, it has been rebuilt several times and given the final architectural forms by the talented Ukrainian architect Hryhoriy Tesla from Drohobych. The church is part of the wooden architecture department of the Museum of Drohobych region. The church consists of three parts. The central block is square in plan and comprises the

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. Two other blocks contain the double

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and the

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. Between 1678 and 1711, the church was renovated: the interior was

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ed, the octagonal structures built up, and a new

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appeared. It is one of the 16 churches that comprise a

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named the Wooden ''Tserkvas'' of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine.

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* Памятники градостроительства и архитектуры Украинской ССР. Киев: Будивельник, 1983–1986. Том 3, с. 98.
Lev Skop. St. George's Church. Drohobych, 2012.
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