churches Archives - Forgotten Galicia

Centers of a World that No Longer Exist

Areta — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 12:23:06 +0000

By Kasia Komar-Macyńska for Nasze Słowo A bell tower was here, right here. Now we go inside… there was a white and black cement tile floor. But when the church was dismantled, they probably liked it, so they took it. But for some reason it was left at the sanctuary — […]

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Ukrainian Churches in the Canadian Prairies

Areta — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 11:08:00 +0000

Approximately 170,000 Ukrainians from the Austro-Hungarian crownlands of Galicia and Bukovina (Bukovyna) arrived in Canada from September 1891 to August 1914. The vast majority settled in the prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, where they obtained land to farm. Few of the early immigrants would have called themselves Ukrainian, […]

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The Wooden Greek Catholic Churches of the Galician Lemko Region

Areta — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 14:12:00 +0000

The Lemkos and Their Fate The Lemkos are an ethnic group who historically inhabited the mountain valleys and foothills of the Carpathians in a region (called Lemkovyna or Lemkivshchyna) that today stretches along the border between Poland and Slovakia covering some western territories in Ukraine. The area that today belongs […]

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Outliving Them All: Ukrainians & Lviv’s Dormition Church

Areta — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 12:04:05 +0000

By Chris Wilkinson The majority of churches in Lviv’s Old Town seem to have one thing in common, namely that their wooden predecessors were reduced to ashes by fire. They were then rebuilt in stone, a material that could withstand both the ravages of fire and time. On multiple occasions, […]

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Abandoned Roman Catholic Churches in the Galician Countryside

Areta — Sat, 18 May 2019 11:35:22 +0000

The Eastern Galician countryside — most of which today is located in western Ukraine — is dotted with abandoned Roman Catholic churches (kościoły) that today stand as reminders of the centuries-old Polish communities that once lived there. Before the war, Roman Catholic Poles made up 21% of the population of […]

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