Attractions Yaremche

In addition to the beautiful Carpathian nature and active winter recreation Yaremche can to please their guests and attractions, including the Church of the Archangel Michael, the church of St. John the Merciful, the church of the Prophet Elijah, the Metropolitan Museum of Andrew Sheptytsky.

The Church of the Archangel Michael was built in the 18th century, and in 1844 it was expanded by the local master V. Gnyshik. Ornamental paintings on the walls made in the beginning. XX century. The carved iconostasis and icons, which have a high artistic value, have been preserved. The church is wooden, cross in plan, one-headed. A larger central frame is completed by a tent head with an interception at the base. The monument belongs to the Hutsul school of folk architecture.

The Church of the Holy Prophet Elijah in the Hutsul folk style was built in 1938 by the masters Ivan Yavorsky from Delyatina and Peter Grigoruk from the River. The architectural ensemble is located on the territory of the men's studio monastery. The temple and the monastery were built on the land, which in the 1930s were donated to the studios of the wife of Ilya and Ivanna Kokorudzi, teachers from Lviv. Their holy patrons, the holy prophet Elijah and St. John the Baptist, and dedicated their temple and monastery to the students. After the war in Galicia, reprisals against the Ukrainian Greek Catholic clergy began. The monastery was abolished, the local inhabitants took monks to their homes, as they had seen a lot of good things from them before. After all, the students taught the youth in the craft school they created, helped the poor and generally treated people with dignity and sympathy. Thanks to good relations and religious traditions, the church, contrary to the instructions of the local authorities, was never destroyed - the temple was brought to the brigade twice by the workers, but they escaped. In the beginning of 1990 the church was returned to the students, who restored it and resumed the church life.

The church of St. John the Merciful with the bell tower of the 17th - 18th centuries is one of the best examples of Hutsul folk architecture. Wooden, cross in plan, with short lateral branches, one-headed, with a latch on the editions of the wreaths of log cabins. To the northern wall of the eastern block adjoins the annex.

It is also worth to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Andrew Sheptytsky - famous Galician metropolitans of the Greek Catholic Church, a fighter for political and cultural freedom of the Ukrainian people