Bonifratra Monastery and St. Lawrence Church (Lviv)

Former Church of Lawrence

Bonifratra Monastery is a Roman Catholic male monastery that existed in Lviv ( Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ).

The monastery was founded in 1539 . He was mainly engaged in the treatment of wounded soldiers of the Polish army and existed until 1784 . The new Austrian authorities (from 1772 Lviv became part of Austria) dismissed him, confiscated his property, and set up a military hospital in the building. The building was used as a military hospital and with every new government that came to Lviv: Russian ( 1914 - 1915 ), again Austro-Hungarian ( 1915 - 1918 ), Polish ( 1918 - 1939 ), Soviet ( 1939 - 1941 ), German ( 1941 - 1944 ), Soviet ( 1944 - 1991 ), Ukrainian (from 1991 until now).

From the Bonifratra monastery, the church of St. Lawrence was preserved on modern Lychakivska Street 26. The church building was rebuilt in 1687 by the Polish architect Benoit, and then the Austrians. The surviving case has a cartouche , a uncovered cornice, a baroque portal decorated with carvings.