Vul. Pekarska, 59 – former church of the Resurrectionist Congregation monastery

The church is the main building of the monastic buildings complex. Due to its slender tower it forms a distinct accent of the housing on the odd side of Pekarska street in its upper eastern segment. The building is located in the south-east part of the ensemble. From the west the church is connected with the former monastery building while from the north and north-west it is connected with the seminary building. The church’s east façade overlooks a small green area, separated from the street by a fence with brick columns.

The church is built of brick and plastered; it is close to a rectangle in plan, with the avant-corps of the former chapel in the east and that of the chancel in the north. The church consists of two parts: the nave and chapels flanking it. The nave is expanded by the choir loft from the south and west. In the south-east corner, the volume of the tower is constructed. The nave is covered with cross vaults, the side parts are covered with semicircular vaults with lunettes. The nave space is marked out by massive pillars, separated by pilasters and topped with arches.

The building’s compositional accent is the main east façade with the corner three-tier octagonal tower and the avant-corps of the chapel in the middle, topped with a pediment. The tower is crowned with a hipped roof. The main entrance to the church is arranged on the axis of the tower. The arched windows and entrances to the church have trimmings. Above the entrances, there are round windows.

The façade overlooking the street has two tiers, five axes and a profiled projection in the middle. The windows on the façade and in the tower’s upper tier are arched and semicircular. At the frieze level, in the tympanum of the chapel’s fronton and under the tower’s hipped roof there is an arcature belt, which is one of the characteristic stylistic (Neo-Romanesque) elements of the church. The church’s north fronton with the letters symbolizing Christ rises above the former seminary building. The main building is covered with a mansard roof; the chapel’s double-pitch roof is covered with tin; the tower‘s hipped roof has four lucarnes.

The easel artwork has not survived. As regards monumental works, there are four oil compositions on the chapel wall, including "The Annunciation", "The shepherds’ bow", "The Presentation of the Lord" (c. 1900). On the vaults and on the nave walls one can see ornamental and symbolic compositions in the Art Deco style (Kazimierz Smuczak, Stanisław Erenfeld, 1932; restoration, 1994). A memorial table dedicated to priest Walerian Kalinka has been preserved in the church.

As regards the style of the church, the Neo-Renaissance is combined there with the Neo-Romanesque style, there are also some elements of the Neo-Baroque (the chapel fronton). This eclectic composition is proper to the creative style of architect Albin Zagórski, who represents the Lviv architectural school of the late 19^th c.