Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Sacred Heart of Mary, Dolyna

The parish "Sacred Heart of Jesus and Sacred Heart of Mary" of the city of Dolyna in the Ivano-Frankivsk Metropolitan of the UGCC was founded in 1992. On this site, since 1904, there was a German church where Evangelicals living in the German colonies of Brochkiv and Oblisky (now the streets of Dolyna) prayed. It was a rectangular building built in the Gothic style. The entrance was from B. Khmelnytskyi Street, accentuated by a four-sided tower with a steep four-sided roof topped with a cross. The cemetery of this church was located on B. Khmelnytskyi Street. Now it is occupied by the gas company and the market.

From 1939 to 1950, this building was empty, and from 1950 it became a mechanical workshop. From 1952 it was the Oil Workers' Club, and from 1971 it became the House of Pioneers. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the reorganization of the premises into a religious building began.

The community, created under the leadership of Fr. Vitaliy Levytskyi, enthusiastically took on the restoration of the house of God, and in 1992 the first services began. Since 1992, significant physical and financial efforts have been made to return this building to a religious structure and create appropriate conditions for the internal and external decoration of the temple, conveniences and comfort for parishioners, and suitable conditions for the education and upbringing of children and youth.

On January 7, 1993, Bishop Irynei (Bylyk) consecrated the first part of the temple, and on January 7, 2007, Bishop Volodymyr (Viytyshyn) together with Bishop Irynei (Bylyk) completed the consecration of the temple. The parish was also visited by bishops Bishop Sofron (Dmyterko), Bishop Sofron (Mudryi), Bishop Joseph (Milyan), and Bishop Hryhorii (Lonchyna).

The church is a very interesting sacred building. A feature of the temple is two iconostases and a Christmas crib, which can be visited throughout the year. There are catechetical classes, a sleeping area that serves for the overnight stay of participants in spiritual camps and needy pilgrims, a children's playroom where parents with children can participate in the Divine Service.

Various directions of pastoral activity are used in the parish: catechesis for children and youth, master classes; sports games-competitions, quizzes, fun starts, excursions, trips, organization of holidays, spiritual missions, charity events, and conducting annual summer spiritual camps. At the initiative of Fr. Vitaliy Levytskyi, an annual festival-competition of Ukrainian spiritual contemporary songs "With a Song to God" named after Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivskyi is held. The relics of Saint Panteleimon the Healer and the blessed Ukrainian martyrs of the 20th century – Bishop Vasyl Velichkovskyi, Fr. Symeon Lukach, and Fr. Yevhen Slyziuk are present in the temple.

Leader: Levytskyi Vitaliy Augustovych

Be sure to visit the museum of the insurgent's hideout and the Dolynskyi Local History Museum of Tetiana and Omelyan Antonovych "Boykivshchyna" - one of the youngest museums in the Carpathian region - founded in 1998. Experienced museum guides will help you organize excursion tours in Dolynshchyna, if you want to see the bunker where Ukrainian nationalists hid, the Carpathian tram in Vygoda, the Dovbush Rocks in Bubnyshche, or the Hoshiv Monastery, Ivan Franko Museum in the village of Lolyn.