Church of St. Nicholas, Truskavets

On the corner of S. Bandera and Stebnytska streets stands the Greek Catholic Church of St. Nicholas, built of stone and brick. The stone church appeared in Truskavets in the 19th century, replacing an older church. At first, a one-story building with a gable roof was rebuilt, crowned with domes with lanterns.

Historical documents show that in 1515 there was a wooden parish church of St. Nicholas in the village of Truskavets. In 1660, it was granted a privilege by the Polish King Jan Kazimierz. The text of the document read as follows: "By a royal charter of 6 October 1660, King Jan Kazimierz of Poland granted the parish of Truskavets, Drohobych district, to the priests Pavlo and Andrii, Vasyl and Stefan." The existence of two ancient wooden churches in Truskavets-the parish church of St. Nicholas (downstairs) and the daughter church of the Holy Trinity (upstairs) is evidenced by consignments of their reality, drawn up on September 29, 1798, by priest Pavlo Yavorsky and signed (certified) with the sign of the cross by the voyt Vasyl Rizhniak, the oathkeeper Vasyl Hurb, and community representatives Ivan Matskiv, Ivan, and Ilko Prystai.

In 1861-1886, the present brick church was built at the expense of the canon of the apparatus Petro Koshalkevych. At that time the church was one-story. Its frames were covered with gable roofs, and the lower side rooms were covered with single-pitched roofs topped with small lanterns with tops at the corners. The nave was completed by a quadrangle with cut edges, covered with a dome with a lantern. The interior of the church was decorated with a four-tiered iconostasis of the second half of the nineteenth century (preserved to this day).

The church interior was decorated with a four-tiered iconostasis created in the second half of the 19th century. The work of ancient masters has been preserved to this day. A later building was a stone bell tower, erected in 1920. The church itself was reconstructed at the same time. The work was funded by the Greek Catholic community, which now owns the church building.

In 1928, the church was restored, and in 1938 it was reconstructed according to a project (1937) by Ukrainian builder Lev Shelevych from Drohobych at the expense of the Greek Catholic community and Father Ivan Valiukh. In 1989-1992, during the reconstruction of the church, paintings were made under the direction of the artist-restorer Bohdan Balytskyi. On October 11, 1998, the Diocesan Museum was opened near St. Nicholas Church in the building of the Sambir-Drohobych Diocese.

The sculpture "Jesus Christ and the Samaritan Woman" greets parishioners on the square in front of the church. Nearby is a monument to Metropolitan Sheptytsky. The Diocesan Museum is located near the church, in the building of the Sambir-Drohobych Diocese.