Stara Skvariava

The Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Staraya Skvaryava near Zhovkva is one of the oldest wooden churches in Ukraine, which is accurately dated. According to the inscription on the beam of the south wall, it was built in 1508. The church originally stood on the ancient Russian settlement of Shchekotyn in nearby Hlynsk. In 1715 it was moved to Staraya Skvaryava, when the local church burned down. The iconostasis, one of the best monuments of the Przemyśl school of icon painting, was also moved. Until the XVI century. there are icons of the prayer series, which depict two figures of saints and two gospel stories. The central icon of the series is the "Savior in the Power of Heaven", which depicts the Last Supper. These works belong to the masters of the Przemyśl school of icon painting. The royal gates date back to the middle of the XVII century. Since 2015, the church has housed the museum "Staroskvaryavsky iconostasis of the XVI-XVIII centuries." - a branch of the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion.