[2] During the ministry of priest Oleksa Volianskyi, the church was visited by Ukrainian cultural and state figures, including: Ivan Franko, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Lesya Ukrainka, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Yakiv Holovatsky, Hnat Khotkevych, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, and others.

In 1956, on the initiative of Teodoziia Plytka-Sorokhan and Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit, a church choir was created (currently led by Hanna Bilak).

[2][3][4] At one time, the church was used for the filming of the Ukrainian movie Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (directed by Sergei Parajanov, cinematographer Yuri Ilyenko, and starring Ivan Mykolaichuk).

[2] The prayers were attended by President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andrii Porubii, U.S.

Ambassador to Ukraine John F. Tefft and his family, Bishop Borys Gudziak, and well-known public figures, scholars, and artists Ivan Drach, Roman Ivanychuk, Yevhen Sverstiuk, and Vasyl Herasymiuk, Petro Kononenko, Mykola Ilnytskyi, Ruslana, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, Mykola Kniazhytskyi, Maria Vlad, Raiisa Nedashkivska, Oles Sanin, Ihor Hyrych, Volodymyr Zubytskyi, Halyna Stefanova, Natalka Polovynka, Serhii Taruta, Vitalii Portnykov, Zinaida Lykhachova, and others.