Bernardine Church, Lviv

The Bernardine church and monastery in Lviv, Ukraine, is located in the city's Old Town, south of the market square.

[1] As the complex was located outside Lviv's city walls it was equipped with its own fortifications from the east and south, mostly taken apart at the beginning of the 19th century.

In 1733 a square belfry was added to the complex and in 1736 a monument to Saint John of Dukla, who died in the monastery in 1484, was built in front of the church.

The church managed to avoid being closed by the Austrian emperor Joseph II, although part of the monastery was taken over for the city archive.

Since 1991 the complex is under the care of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Basilian Order and has undergone thorough renovation.