The Chapel of the Booms

The Chapel of the Booms is a monument to Lviv architecture. It was built by the architect and sculptor Bemer, as a crypt in 1609-1617 for the merchant family Boim.nAt first, this territory belonged to the city cemetery. The construction was started by George Boim, a Lviv merchant and usurer of Hungarian origin, and completed by his son Pavel-Georgiy.nThe wall facing the Latin Cathedral is covered with intricate carvings, the interior is also decorated with alabaster carvings. Portraits of George Boim and his wife, Jadwigi, are preserved on the eastern facade. nAmong the family members not buried in the chapel was one of Pavel-George’s six sons, Michal Boim, who became a Jesuit missionary and died in 1659 in the jungle on the Sino-Vietnamese border, trying to find the last emperor of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yulan, and deliver him the answer of the Pope Alexander VII to the request of the Chinese for help against the Manchu invaders