The Boim Chapel - Find and Follow

ABOUT THE LOCATION

It is a chapel of a Lviv family of merchants, doctors, and city officials by the name of Boim is a unique masterpiece of architecture of the early 17th century in the forms of northern European Mannerism. Fourteen representatives of this family were buried here. George Boim, an elder of the family, whose portrait we see hanging on the wall of the chapel, held a position of a burgomaster while being the only surgeon in Lviv who performed craniotomy surgeries. His son Paweł became a personal physician of Sigismund III, the King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. This family gave birth to the most glorious Lviv citizen of all times—Michał, the grandson of George. In the 1640–1650s, Michał Boim, Lviv Jesuit missionary, compiled the first description of South East Africa in Europe, made the first European atlas of China, published the first book in Europe on vegetation in China, was the first to introduce acupuncture and pulse measurement to the Europeans and to bring kiwi fruit to Europe.