
Collonade of the Main Gate to the Eaglet Cemetary
- ID: 977
- Place: Lviv
- Date: 1934 - 1939
The building of the Church of St. Andrew the Apostle of the Bernardine Order, located at Soborna Square, 3 (the former Bernardine Square), combines features of the Italian and German Renaissance. The Church of St. Andrew was built in 1600-1630 at the expense of the Sandomierz voivode Jerzy Mniszek and voluntary contributions from Lviv burghers with the assistance of King Sigismund III. During these years, it was successively built by Fr. Bernard Avelides, architects Pavlo Rymlyanyn and Ambrosius Prykhylny. It is assumed that the authorship of the eastern and western facades; the sculptural decoration of the pediment; the octagonal 38-meter bell tower belongs to the Wrocław architect and sculptor Andreas Boehmer. On the facade are carved coats of arms - the Polish Eagle and the Belarusian Chase. During the reconstruction of the 18th century. the interior was enriched with frescoes, rich sculptural decor, carved and forged decorative elements. The church of St. Andrew has 17 altars dedicated to the patrons of the church. The church and monastery, surrounded by a powerful defensive wall, were part of the eastern city fortification wall. Part of the Bernardine complex is the tower - the bell tower on the south side, built in 1734, before World War I there was a bell of 1588. In 1734-1736, in front of the central entrance to the church, at the expense of the field crown hetman Severyn Zhevusky, a column was erected in honor of St. John of Dukla, who was considered the defender of Lviv. The author of the sculptural figure was the carver Tomasz Gutter from Yaroslav.