Vul. Korolenka, 01 – House of Prayer of the Seventh Day Adventists (former Capuchin order church)

1708-1730 – the construction of the church and monastery buildings.
1785 – the Franciscan monastery grounds are expanded.
1833 – the church and the monastery buildings are seriously damaged by a fire.
1835 – the church and the monastery are repaired.
1840s – a novitiate building is erected.
1882 – the sewerage is made.
1883 – the monastery grounds are expanded due to the joining of two plots adjoining the monastery from Franciskańska street, i.e., from the west. A new wall fence is constructed (architect Kazimierz Krzyżanowski).
1891 – the southern wing is redesigned (architect Kazimierz Smoleński).
1894 – the monastery’s eastern wing is reconstructed (architect Kazimierz Smoleński).
Early 20^th c. – a parcel adjoining Franciszkańska street is joined to the monastery.
1902 – restoration works; a Neoclassicist style narthex with a Baroque pediment is added (architect Antoni Kunicki); a bas-relief depicting the Blessed Virgin of the Immaculate Conception is arranged.
1926 – a third floor is added to the western and, partially, to the southern wing of the monastery in the Art Deco style; church’s façades and altars are renovated (architect Michał Łużecki).
1932 – a new building with an assembly hall in the Functionalist style is constructed in the south-western part of the monastery grounds, close to Korolenka street (architect Wawrzyniec Dajczak).
1945 – the church equipment is taken to Poland by the Franciscan fathers.
Late 1940s – the flèche and crosses are dismantled; the interior paintings are whitewashed.
1950s – the monastery buildings are adapted for a special boarding school.
1997 – repair and restoration works are performed to adapt the church for a prayer house (architect Mykola Rybenchuk).
2007 – the church’s tin roofing is replaced with a synthetic one.

The Capuchin friars were invited to Lviv by the Cracow castellan’s wife, Elżbieta Zofia Sieniawska. In 1708 she bought a plot in the Halytske suburb, behind the Discalced Carmelites’ monastery, and founded a Capuchin monastery there. The construction of the masonry church, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of the monastery buildings was started in the same year; by 1730 it was finished. In the 1740s the faithful, who visited the Carmelite church, began to go over to the Capuchin church on a mass scale; thus, a conflict between the monasteries happened. After the Capuchin monastery was abolished due to the 1785 decree of Austrian Emperor Joseph II, the Franciscan friars from the abolished Holy Cross monastery, located in the walled city, were moved there. The Franciscan order came to Lviv in the 1350s, immediately after the annexation of Galicia by the Polish Crown. As early as the 1370s the Franciscans of Lviv finished the construction of a masonry church dedicated to the Holy Cross; the church was situated within the city walls, on a plot near the Low Castle (now the building of the Economic Faculty of the Lviv Ivan Franko National University stands there). The Franciscan order was usually engaged in taking care of the sick in the time of epidemics, in bringing religious consolation to the condemned persons and in scholarly work.

The new Franciscan monastery grounds became larger as they occupied a large elongated plot which stretched to the east from Franciszkańska (now Korolenka) street along Kurkowa (now Lysenka) street. The ground was enclosed with a brick wall fence. In 1833 the church of the Immaculate Conception and the monastery buildings were seriously damaged by a fire; they were thoroughly repaired in 1835. A novitiate building was erected in the 1840s.

Considerable repairs were carried out in the late 19^th century. In 1882 the buildings were sewered. A stable was built near the southern part of the monastery wall fence under a project drawn by architect Kazimierz Krzyżanowski; now its premises are used as a school workshop. In 1883 the Franciscan fathers purchased from the town two new parcels adjoining the monastery wall fence from Franciszkańska street. In the same year these two parcels were enclosed with a new wall fence, again under a Kazimierz Krzyżanowski’s project. In 1891 the southern wing was redesigned according to the project by architect Kazimierz Smoleński; also in 1894 the monastery’s eastern wing was reconstructed according to his design. After all these reconstructions the monastery buildings got a new appearance. It was also planned to reconstruct the façades’ decorations in the Neoclassicist style.

In the early 20^th century the monastery's grounds were expanded to the west: some territory which adjoined the road was included. In 1902 a Neoclassicist style narthex, topped with a Baroque pediment with volutes, was added to the church under a project drawn by architect Antoni Kunicki. A bas-relief depicting the Blessed Virgin of the Immaculate Conception was arranged in the central semicircular niche between the second tier windows where a painted icon had been previously.

In 1926 a third floor was added to the western and, partially, to the southern wing of the monastery. A project of this addition was designed by architect Michał Łużecki in then fashionable Art Deco style. The church’s façades and altars were renovated under his supervision in the same year. In 1932 in the south-western part of the monastery grounds, close to Korolenka street, a new building with an assembly hall in the Functionalist style was constructed according to the design  of architect Wawrzyniec Dajczak.

After the World War II the Franciscan fathers moved to Poland and took all the belongings and the church equipment with them. In the Soviet period the monastery territory was divided between several owners. For some time the monastery buildings were occupied by a military unit and later by the special boarding school no. 6. The church building was at first used as the military unit’s storehouse and later as the school dining hall. In the 1990s it was transferred to the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. In 1997 a project of the church’s adaptation for a prayer house was drawn by architect Mykola Rybenchuk; in the same year repair and restoration works were performed for this adaptation.