The Dominican Cathedral and Monastery is one of the most significant monuments of late Baroque architecture in Lviv. The buildings of the monastery and bell tower have housed the Museum of Religious History since 1972 the Museum of the History of Religion is located in the buildings of the monastery and bell tower.
In plan, the cathedral is an elongated cross with an oval centre. oval central part, two radially arranged chapels, rectangular altar and narthex. Crowning the temple is a huge elliptical dome, which is supported by eight pairs of powerful twin columns. On the pediment there are sculptures made in different angles. from different angles.
The luxurious Baroque altar of the cathedral is adorned with four large statues, made by by artists of M. Paleyovsky's circle. The galleries and loggias are decorated with wooden statues by Lviv sculptors of the second half of the 18th century. The interior has preserved original sculptural decoration by K. Fessinger. There are several valuable There are several valuable monuments of art: the marble tombstone of Y. Dunin-Borkovskaya by the famous Danish sculptor B. Torvanger. Danish sculptor B.Thorvaldsen (1816), a monument to the Galician governor F.Gauer by A.A.Gauer. F.Gauer by A.Shimzer (early 19th century), a monument to the Polish artist A.Grotger by V.Gademski (1880).
