St. George’s Cathedral

St. George's Cathedral is a baroque-rococo cathedral located in the city of , the historic capital of western . It was constructed between 1744-1760 on a hill overlooking the city.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Greek Catholic
  • Description: Ukrainian Greek Catholic church in Lviv
  • Also known as: “Saint George’s Cathedral”, “St George’s Cathedral”, and “St. George’s Cathedral, Lviv”
  • Address: площа Святого Юра 5, 79000
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lviv State Circus and 11 Lystopadovoho Chynu Street.

Theater building
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is a theater building, which is situated 160 metres north of St. George’s Cathedral.

Museum
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is a museum, which is situated 210 metres southeast of St. George’s Cathedral.

Memorial
Statue of Andrey Sheptytsky was installed in in 2015. In the 1930s and 1940s, there were two monuments to the metropolitan in Lviv, but they were later destroyed by the Soviet authorities.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kastelivka and Tsytadel.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

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is in and used to be the capital of East Galicia. It's the biggest city of the region and a major Ukrainian cultural centre on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

St. George’s Cathedral

Latitude
49.83865° or 49° 50′ 19″ north
Longitude
24.01295° or 24° 0′ 47″ east
Inception
1744
Levels
1
Open location code
8GX6R2Q7+F5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 165546187
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­cathedral
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­greek_catholic
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q1774485
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Frisian—“St. George’s Cathedral” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Katedralja e Shën Gjergjit, Lviv”
  • Arabic: “كاتدرائية القديس جورج”
  • Armenian: “Սուրբ Գևորգի տաճար”
  • Azerbaijani: “Müqəddəs Georgi kafedralı”
  • Belarusian: “Архікафедральны сабор Святога Юра”
  • Belarusian: “Сабор Святога Юра”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট জর্জেস ক্যাথেড্রাল, লভিভ”
  • Chinese: “圣乔治主教座堂”
  • Croatian: “Katedrala sv. Jurja u Lavovu”
  • Czech: “Katedrála svatého Jiří”
  • Dutch: “Sint-Joriskathedraal (Lviv)”
  • Dutch: “Sint-Joriskathedraal”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاتدرائيه سانت جورج لفيف”
  • Estonian: “Lvivi Püha Jüri katedraal”
  • Finnish: “Pyhän Yrjön katedraali (Lviv)”
  • Finnish: “Pyhän Yrjön katedraali”
  • French: “Cathédrale Saint-Georges de Lviv”
  • French: “cathédrale Saint-Georges”
  • Galician: “Catedral de San Xurxo”
  • Georgian: “ლვივის წმინდა გიორგის ტაძარი”
  • Georgian: “წმინდა გიორგის ტაძარი”
  • German: “Sankt-Georgs-Kathedrale”
  • Greek: “Καθεδρικός Ναός του Αγίου Γεωργίου”
  • Hebrew: “קתדרלת גאורגיוס הקדוש”
  • Hungarian: “Lembergi katedrális”
  • Hungarian: “Lembergi ortodox katedrális”
  • Hungarian: “Lembergi ortodox székesegyház”
  • Hungarian: “Lembergi székesegyház”
  • Hungarian: “Szent György-katedrális (Lemberg)”
  • Hungarian: “Szent György-katedrális (Lviv)”
  • Hungarian: “Szent György-székesegyház (Lemberg)”
  • Hungarian: “Szent György-székesegyház (Lviv)”
  • Hungarian: “Szent György-székesegyház”
  • Indonesian: “Katedral Lviv”
  • Indonesian: “Katedral Santo Georgius, Lviv”
  • Italian: “Cattedrale di San Giorgio”
  • Japanese: “聖ユーラ大聖堂”
  • Kashubian: “Archikatedralny sobór sw. Jurë we Lwòwie”
  • Polish: “Archikatedralny sobór św. Jura we Lwowie”
  • Portuguese: “Catedral de São Jorge”
  • Romanian: “Catedrala Sfântul Gheorghe din Liov”
  • Russian: “Архикафедральный собор Св.Юра”
  • Russian: “Собор Святого Юра”
  • Slovak: “Katedrála svätého Juraja”
  • Spanish: “Catedral de San Jorge”
  • Swedish: “Sankt Görans katedral, Lviv”
  • Swedish: “Sankt Görans katedral”
  • Turkish: “Aziz Yura Katedrali, Lviv”
  • Ukrainian: “Архикатедральний собор Святого Юра”
  • Ukrainian: “Собор святого Юра”
  • Ukrainian: “Собор Святого Юра”
  • Western Frisian: “Sint-Joariskatedraal (Lviv)”
  • Western Frisian: “Sint-Joariskatedraal”

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