Rizdva Khrystovoho Church

Western Ukraine


Ternopil's most attractive ecclesiastical interior belongs to the 17th-century Church of the Nativity. Inside this oasis of calm, the nave explodes in gilded colour, musty murals and polished-brass incense burners. Outside stands a very visible monument to the 1932–33 famine (many in Ukraine are hidden in obscure locations).


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