The Church of the Icon of the Holy Virgin Mary in Borshchiv was built between 1994 and 2006. It stands on a former 18th-century church that was destroyed during the Soviet era. In 1993, a temporary temple was built on the site while the present church was being constructed.
The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. It appears on cadastral maps of 1826, 1858 and 1899. It can be assumed that the cemetery already existed in the middle of the 18th century. The grave of Baal Shem Tov’s mother, Sarah, is located on the Jewish cemetery of Tovste.
According to epigraphic data, the cemetery existed aready in 1795. It appears on maps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the 1880s. It was used until 1900s, when a new cemetery was opened.
The Synagogue in Probizhna is an Ashkenazi synagogue from the 19th century. In use until the 1930s, this Baroque Survival brick synagogue is now abandoned.
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