Old Market Square (Lviv)

Staryi Rynok Square (Ukrainian: Площа Старий Ринок, Polish: Stary Rynek we Lwowie) is a square in Lviv, Ukraine. It is located north of the Market Square, along Bohdan Khmelnytsky street, in the vicinity of St. Nicholas Church. The area in which the square is situated constituted the town center during the earliest period of Lviv's history, when it was part of the Galician-Volhynian state.[1][2]

Old Market Square, Lviv
Staryi Rynok
TypeMedieval market square
LocationLviv, Ukraine
Coordinates49°50′46″N 24°01′47″E

Notable buildings
  • Tempel Synagogue, destroyed in 1941[3]
  • Former St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, now the Museum of Historic Artifacts of Lviv[4]

References
  1. Zhuk, Ihor (2000). "The Architecture of Lviv from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Centuries". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. Lviv: A City in the Crosscurrents of Culture. Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. 24: 98-99.
  2. Posatskyy, Bohdan (2015). "Townscape of Lviv – Phases of Development (13th – 18th centuries)". Architectural Studies. Lviv Polytechnic National University. 1 (1): 36.
  3. Oksana, Boyko. "Pl. Staryi Rynok – former Tempel synagogue". lvivcenter.org. Center for Urban History of East Central Europe. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  4. Zhuk, Ihor. "Pl. Staryi Rynok – former St. John the Baptist church". lvivcenter.org. Center for Urban History of East Central Europe. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
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