History of Construction of the new Church of the Epiphany in Lviv in 1711–1712

Abstract

Church of the Epiphany in Lviv was built within two years in 1711–1712 and
its consecration took place in mid-1712. The construction work of the church was
organized by master carpenter Hryhory. In the hottest time of the work on the
temple there were 30-40 carpenters apprentices simultaneously. Church brotherhood
operated of limited funds, to build the church was collected about 2400 Polish
zlotys. Impossibility to build a stone church led the Epiphany parish at the end of the
18 th centuryto closing by the Austrian authorities and dismantling of this Ukrainian
temple in Lviv.
Keywords: Epiphany Church, Lviv, wooden church, master carpenter Hryhory