St. Pantaleon Church, Shevchenkove

St. Pantaleon Church is a Romanesque–Byzantine style church in Ukraine, in the village of Shevchenkove, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. The only and oldest of the churches of the Galician, and later Galician–Volhynian Principality, which has survived to this day and represents the Galician school of architecture of the medieval period. It is an architectural monument of national importance. It is a monumental cross-vaulted church with examples of exquisite white stone carving and numerous drawings and graffiti on the walls. Located near modern Halych. Belongs to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Built in the late 1180s–1194 by Prince Volodymyr Yaroslavych as an Orthodox church. During 1199–1205, the palace of Prince Roman Mstislavich was located near the church, where the future king of Rus', Daniel, and his brother Vasylko, were probably born. In the 14th century it was converted into the Roman Catholic Church of St. Stanislaus. From 25 May 1596 it belonged to the Franciscan Order. It was restored in 1916–1938, 1965 and 1996–1998. In 1991 it was transferred to the Greek Catholics. It is part of the National Reserve "Ancient Halych", and is the oldest building of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and the wider region of Ciscarpathia.

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