Malekhiv

Malekhiv

Малехів
*Malechów*
Malekhiv Малехів Malechów
village
	Malekhiv
	Coordinates: 49°52′54″N 24°14′31″E / 49.88167°N 24.24194°ECoordinates: 49°52′54″N 24°14′31″E / 49.88167°N 24.24194°E
Country	Ukraine
Province	Lviv Oblast
District	Zhovkva Raion
Established	1377
Area
• Total	579 km2 (224 sq mi)
Elevation /(average value of)	268 m (879 ft)
Population
• Total	3 000
• Density	403,450/km2 (1,044,900/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	80383
Area code	+380 322
Website	село Малехів (Ukrainian)

Malekhiv (Ukrainian: Малехів^[1]) is a village in Zhovkva Raion of Lviv Oblast located at a distance of 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) northeast of the city of Lviv. It is at a distance 29 kilometres (18 mi) from the raion’s seat, Zhovkva, and 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from Velyki Hrybovychi.
Elevation footnotes (average value of) is 268 metres (880 ft).^[2] Local government — Malekhivska village council.^[3]

Through the village passes Highway M06 (Ukraine) ( M06).

History[]

The first mention of the village of Malekhiv in historical documents refers to 1377.^[4] But Ancient people have lived in territory of village Malekhiv in the first century AD.

History of the name — Malechow (Lemberg Umgebung), Galicia, Austria; later Malechów (Lwów), Lwów, Poland; now Malekhiv, Zhovkva, L′viv, Ukraine.^[5]

Religious communities[]

In the village there are three religious communities. This religious community of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Roman Catholic Church and Religious Communities Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephalous Church.

There has church Cathedral of the Most Holy Theotokos, which belongs to the Greek Catholic community (the temple was built in 1892), and Catholic church of St. Archangel Michael (was built in 70 years of the 18th century).

Church Cathedral of the Most Holy Theotokos UGCC.
Roman Catholic church of St. Archangel Michael
Temple of Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God Ukrainian UAOC. Malekhiv (Zhovkva Raion).