Jesuit College (21 Sheptytskyi Sq.)
In 1669, landowner Andrzej Potocki founded the branch of the Krakow Academy in the city, which was usually called Academy. Jozef Potocki, unlike his father Andrzej, was an enthusiast of the Jesuit Order and set the goal of creating a collegium. In 1714 priest Tomasz Zalenskyi settled in Stanislaviv as a chaplain of voivode Jozef Potocki.
The voivode presented newly arrived Jesuits a territory where the wooden Potocki Castle once was located. Soon, the construction of the church started there. At the same time, the Jesuits restored the wooden building of the former academy, and in September 1716 several classes were solemnly opened there. However, due to the lack of funds, the Academy provided only such ordinary classes as infima, grammar and syntax. Only in the following year, two higher classes of poetry and rhetoric were initiated, and a year later a two-year course of philosophy was set up with the help of the royal colonel Pavlo Vitoslavskyi, who donated 6,000 zlotych. The new Jesuit building was called the residence and was under the direction of St. Peter’s College in Lviv.
In the wooden house, which preceded the stone Jesuit collegium, since 1717 joint divine services were held. The first of them were during the beatification of Blessed Francisk. On that day, the altar was decorated with damask picturing the emblems of France, Poland, Kyivan Rus’, Halych Land and the Potocki family. In 1726, Victoria from Leszczynski family, the wife of Jozef Potocki established a department of French and German languages.
The school was flourishing during 1730-1760 years. There were more than 400 students at that time. Among them was the future poet Frantsishek Karpinsky, who in his diary recorded remarkable memories of school years spent in Stanislaviv.
On November 1, 1784, at the college premises, a state gymnasium started functioning. The students included such outstanding figures as Ivan Vahylevych, who was a Ukrainian writer and one of the founders of the Ruthenian Triad (Ruska Triytsia) and at the 20th century – Mykhailo Yatskiv, who was a Ukrainian writer and an activist of the literary group Moloda Muza. Since the First World War and until 1939 the Polish Gymnasium was located in this building. Since 1939, it was turned into a high school for two years. After the end of the Second World War, in 1945, a medical institute was opened in Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University). From 1945 to the present day the building is occupied by a Morphological Campus of the Medical University.