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Archaeologists Find Walls of Church Built by King Danylo of Halych

15.10.2013, 10:21
Ukrainian archaeologists have found the walls of a church built by Danylo of Halych (1201-1264) – a Rus’ prince of the Romanovych dynasty, the ruler of the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia, the first King of Rus’-Ukraine (from 1253).

Ukrainian archaeologists have found the walls of a church built by Danylo of Halych (1201-1264) – a Rus’ prince of the Romanovych dynasty, the ruler of the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia, the first King of Rus’-Ukraine (from 1253), Religion in Ukraine informs.

The founder of Lviv built this church in Chelm (now located in Poland) nearly eight hundred years ago. Specialists spent five months excavating the inside of the church.

The first phase of the project “Search, Identification, and Scientific Study of the Oldest Church of the Holy Virgin” is coming to an end.

King Danylo of Halych moved the capital of the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia of Halych to Chelm.