Lytvyniv Monastery

It was first mentioned in the Akta Grodzkie i Ziemskie [pl] in 1586. Information about the ktitors (founders) and the original foundation documents were lost during the Tatar raids in the mid-17th century.^[1][2]

According to a visitation in 1764, the monastery complex consisted of a stone-built, three-section Holy Trinity Church with three masonry domes. At that time, it required repair to the roof and walls, which had been damaged by moisture. Inside the church, there was the main altar and two side altars: the Holy Trinity, the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Onuphrius. Next to the church stood a wooden bell tower on a stone foundation with four bells. The residential cells, which housed five monks in 1724, were built of clay, whitewashed, and covered with a thatched roof, including five cells, three of which were inhabited.^[1]

The monastery's economy was quite modest. An inventory compiled by the Hegumen Yeronim Dunaievskyi in the Ruthenian language in 1729 testified that the cloister owned only small plots of land: arable fields, orchards, gardens, and meadows. The service buildings were equally simple: two small barns, a granary, and a stable with a coach house. All these buildings were constructed of brushwood and covered with straw. The monastery also maintained an apiary which numbered thirty-three hives. Six families of cottagers settled beneath the monastery.^[1]

In December 1764, the Lytvyniv Monastery was subordinated to the Zavaliv Monastery, which actually marked the beginning of its decline.^[1]