Great Synagogue in Chernivtsi

The Hevra Tehilim Synagogue of the Vizhnitz Hasidim in Chernivtsi is a Hasidic synagogue from the 19th century. The Rundbogenstil brick building is now a church.

The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin is the first Greek-Catholic church in Bukovyna, built in 1820-21 in the Empire style. Initially named the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, the church was called the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin from 1937. In the early 1940s, the church was already too small for the faithful and was therefore enlarged thanks to a project by Volodymyr Zalozetsky. With the advent of the Bolshevik regime in 1946, worship in Ukrainian Greek-Catholic churches was banned and only reopened in 1990.

The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption was built in the 14th to 15th centuries. Construction began during the reign of the Polish king Casimir the Great in 1370. The presbytery was completed in 1404, the nave in 1474 and the cathedral was consecrated by Bishop Maciej Janina in 1405. During the great fire in Lviv in 1527, the cathedral was severely damaged. Between 1765 and 1772, a fundamental reconstruction was ordered, during which many funerary monuments, epitaphs and altars from the Gothic and Renaissance periods were removed. The building took on a late Baroque character with Rococo elements. In 1777, one of the two towers was fitted with a rococo helmet. At the end of the 19th century, the presbytery was renovated in the Gothic style according to the plans of Julian Zachariewicz. At the end of the 19th century, stained glass windows were installed.