Saint Paraskevi church is particularly known for its remarkable iconostasis consisting of more than seventy individual fragments. This church is a true masterpiece of Ukrainian part of the 16th-17th centuries. Painters whose names are unknown managed to achieve an intriguing combination of vivid national co louring coupled with western influence. In Lviv one often comes [...]
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Hi there, unfortunately I was very busy during the last days, so I absolutely haven’t any time to update my blog – hopefully now I will have more time to update it more often so don’t forget to visit my blog! Continuing our Lvovs’ tour along the “Podzamche” we comes to the last church of the district – the Church of Saint Paraskevi Pjatnisa (Tserkov Svyatoi Praskovii or Pyatnitskaya Tserkov, No. 63, St. Bogdan Khmelnitsky). In addition to “Paraskevi” there are many other variations of this Greek female name – such as Pascha, Petka, Paraskeva, Praskovia, [...] |
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