Former Armenian Church

Top choice in The Carpathians


A few steps off pl Rynok stands this eye-pleasingly symmetrical baroque church built by the Armenian community in 1762. Beyond the golden doors the interior is a typically fragrant affair busy with headscarved babushkas lighting beeswax candles and praying before gilt icons.


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