Foundations of sacred monuments in the village of Krylos

The foundation of the Church of the Annunciation - Near the village of Chetvertka in Krylos, on the Tserkivske field on the left bank of the Lukva, L. Lavretskyi, with the participation of I. Sharanevych, excavated the foundation of an elongated single-nave white stone church in 1884-1885. Sharanevych considered the excavated ruins to be the Church of the Annunciation. In 1987 and 1990, an archaeological expedition from Lviv re-examined the Church of the Annunciation. It found that the foundation outlines a stone one-nave church. The foundation of the Church of the Annunciation was built of river stone on a strong lime-sand mortar. Fragments of the mosaic floor, made of stoneware tiles of various shapes and colors, have been preserved. In addition to the typical repetitive forms, there were so-called figured tiles with fragments of two-color images with imprinted and scratched designs. Based on architectural analysis and archaeological finds, archaeologists date the Church of the Annunciation to the early thirteenth century, and the duration of its functioning to the mid-fifteenth century.

Thefoundation of the church on Tsarynka - the unexpected discovery of a stone slab in the Tsarynka tract in early 1986 contributed to the discovery of the remains of another unknown archaeological site of ancient Halych. An expedition of Lviv archaeologists discovered the remains of a medium-sized but richly decorated church, or rather a church-tomb on Tsarynka.

The foundation of the ResurrectionRotunda - in the Voskresenske tract, opposite the Kryloske settlement, on the right side of the Mozolevyi Stream on a low hill (8-12 m), is the foundation of the Resurrection Rotunda. The attractive appearance of the hill and its mysterious name attracted the first researchers of chronicle Halych. In 1884, L. Lavretskyi excavated the foundations of an unknown octagonal building, which he believed to be an octagonal building. I. Sharaevych concluded that the foundation was similar in shape and material to the church on the Polygon in the Karpiv hai tract and considered it to be the remains of the Resurrection Rotunda Church, which, in his opinion, existed in the eighteenth century. Professor V. Antonovych, who examined the excavation in 1885, believed that this foundation should be attributed to defensive stone towers. Scientists concluded that this foundation is a rounded building, the outer contours of which are rather vague and form a circle with a diameter of about 10 meters. Archaeologists have suggested that the building was a two- or three-tiered log church-chapel, the plan of which was most likely octagonal. The material of the foundation indicates a relatively late date of construction. The building should be dated to the thirteenth century.

Thefoundation of the Church of Cyril and Methodius - the former metropolitan forest of Dibrova stretches along the right bank of the Limnytsia River to the west of Krylos. In the days of ancient Halych, this area was free of forest, as evidenced by the ninth- and tenth-century burial mounds discovered here. In 1882, Lavretskyi and Sharanevych discovered the massive foundation of a four-pillar tri-apsidal stone church.

Initially, scientists considered the building to be the remains of the Chronicle Cathedral of the Assumption. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the monument was rediscovered by O. Pelensky. Based on the place name "Kyrylivka," the researcher named the church St. Cyril's. In 1981-1984, the ruins near Dibrova were explored for the third time by a detachment of the Galician Archaeological Expedition from Lviv. They found the following dimensions of the monument: 15.15x20.20 meters. The width of the foundation walls is from 1.7 to 2.6 meters. Lviv scientists attributed this archaeological monument to the tower-like churches of a new style in the architecture of Ancient Rus of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries and dated it to the last third of the twelfth century.

The foundation of the Church of the Prophet Elijah is located on Ubich Hill, cut off from Kryloska Hill by the Mozole Stream, where the road from Halych to Ivano-Frankivsk now runs, and the Prokaliyiv Sad tract is located. Here, from ancient times until the mid-eighteenth century, there was a monastery with a white-stone church of the Prophet Elijah.

The first excavations of the lost structure were carried out by L. Lavretskyi and I. Sharanevych in 1886-1887. It turned out that it was a rotunda with a rectangular narthex adjacent to it from the west and a semicircular apse from the east. During the research, architectural details of the temple, fresco paintings, church equipment, and the remains of a stone sarcophagus were found. With its layout, construction features, and decor, the cathedral illustrates the lively relationship between the Galician school of architecture and Western European architecture. Interestingly, the author of the First Ukrainian Constitution, Hetman Pylyp Orlyk, visited the Church of the Prophet Elijah.