ghost statues Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/ghost-statues/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Mon, 08 Jul 2024 11:04:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png ghost statues Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/ghost-statues/ 32 32 ‘Ghost Statues’: Lviv’s Empty Niches https://forgottengalicia.com/ghost-statues-lviv/ https://forgottengalicia.com/ghost-statues-lviv/#respond Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:44:20 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=1890 An interesting phenomenon in Lviv is its many “ghost statues.” This is what I call the empty niches found on the facades of buildings where once stood statues, especially of religious figures such as the Virgin Mary or saints. Under the Soviet Union, traces of religion were removed from the […]

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