Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, UNESCO.

Address: 18 Taras Shevchenko Street, Nyzhniy Verbizh village, Kolomyia district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine

Phone: +380973731265

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According to the legend, the present-day Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built with opryshkivskyi money by Hryhorii Melnyk, who lived for 114 years and was buried right next to the church. The donor inscription in front of the entrance names Hryhorii Semeniuk and “other pharmacists” and indicates two dates: 1788 and 1808. The first date is obviously the year of the church’s construction, and the second, with such a detailed specification, is probably the date of its final decoration and consecration. Local historians Mykhailo Lasiychuk and Ivan Ludchak believe that the construction of the church began in 1756.