Khram Sv. Much. Yosafata - Volodymyr, vul. Kovelska, 47

Description of the sight

The temple was built in 1890 for the society of German Lutherans. According to the first census in 1897, 91 Lutherans lived in Vladimir. The first pastor lived in the Antonovka-Makovichi colony, where they planned to build a pastorate. However, they considered it expedient to transfer the center of the parish to Vladimir-Volynsky, which they did in 1893. The first parsonage in the city was erected in 1899. A large stone church was built in 1923-1927. On voluntary donations of parishioners. On October 16, 1927, it was consecrated. From 1944 to 1950, there was a warehouse of various chemicals in the temple. Subsequently, until 1993, the city gym, which hosted film screenings and discos for young people. In 1989, the Greek Catholic community became more active in Vladimir-Volynsky. The priests came out of the underground. October 1, 1992 The head of the UGCC, Cardinal Miroslav-Ivan Lyubachivsky, gives his consent and blessing to the foundation and construction of the monastery and the church of the holy martyr Josaphat on the site where the church of St. Paraskeva (in which St. Josaphat received the Sacrament of Baptism) in Vladimir-Volynsky. However, it was not possible to build a new temple or return the former Basilian monastery built by the Jesuits, which today belongs to the UOC-KP, to the property of the Greek Catholic society of the city. Finally, due to the lack of a Lutheran community in the city, at the end of August 1993, the church was transferred to the Greek Catholics. On September 23, 1996, the head of the UGCC, Lubomyr Huzar, gave his blessing for the existence of the monastery of the Order of St. Basil the Great in Vladimir-Volynsky.