Staryi Rynok Square (, ) is a square in

Lviv Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of ...

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. It is located north of the

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, along Bohdan Khmelnytsky street, in the vicinity of St. Nicholas Church. The area in which the square is situated constituted the town center during the earliest period of Lviv's history, when it was part of the Galician-Volhynian state.

Notable buildings

* Tempel Synagogue, destroyed in 1941 *Former St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, now the Museum of Historic Artifacts of Lviv

References

{{reflist Buildings and structures in Lviv Squares in Lviv Tourist attractions in Lviv