Location:
1 Volodymyr Velykyi Str., Horodenka town
GPS coordinates: 48.67058945 25.50706482
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church and the Theatines monastery complex were built during the 1745-1760, at the request of Kaniv mayor Mykola Pototskyi, designed by an architect Bernard Meretin in collaboration with the sculptor Johann Georg Pinzel. A distinguished artist had decorated the Church with 5 altars and 33 sculptures. The main altar sculptures were the largest ever made by Pinzel, reaching a height of more than two meters.
In 1763, the temple changed its status from monastery to parish. The peculiarity of the sacral building - instead of crosses there were Pototskyi family emblems on belfries.
In 1772, after the first division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Horodenka region became a part of Halychyna and was taken by Austria. The monastery was liquidated in 80s of the 18th century, because of religious reform of the Austrian emperor Joseph II. In 1866, 1905-1906 the Church was restored. During World War I, the complex of monastery buildings was destroyed, so it was rebuilt in the 1920s. During the USSR times, a military unit was housed in the monastery buildings; later vocational school of mechanics was located here. All of temple inner utensils were destroyed. Almost all altar sculptures, made by Pinzel work were cut into firewood. The damaged "Kind Shepherd" statue, which has survived, now is at the National Museum of Folk Art of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttia, named after J. Kobrinskyi in Kolomyia.
In 1991, the Church was passed to the UGCC (Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church).
Now a functioning Church needs conservation and restoration.
An architectural monument of national significance.