The data about the parish in Chorni Oslavy was first recorded in Ruthenian Voivodeship register book in 1579. It was mentioned that there was no church in the village and its community belonged to the parish of the village of Lanchyn. According to the facts recorded in 1700 there was a church managed by the deanery of Zhukiv (Tlumatskyi district now). In 1740, the year when the Bishop of Lviv visited this place, it was indicated that the church resembled a “nativity scene.” And in 1746, the residents jointly built a new church – named after Saint Basil the Great.

According to the Joseph parish register created in 1786 due to the hard work of the priest Mukola Levytskyi there appeared a church with a yard sanctified to be a cemetery. Because of the small local community the parish of Chorni Oslavy joined the one of Bili Oslavy in a status of a branch in 1803. In 1849 the first map of the village showed the location of the church which was not the same it is today, but in the place of a bell-tower and was of a rectangular shape. In 1866 the church was burnt, however, the Christians immediately started to build a new one. In 1885 the process was finished, and on 14 January 1886, the Holiday of St. Basil the Great, it was sanctified. It managed to survive till modern days.

In the 1970s the church (even the front door) and the bell-tower were clad with tinplate. The church lost of its primary appearance during 2014-2015 when the parishioners replaced the roof, clad the walls in yellow and blue tinplate, renovated the domes and the facade.

Today it belongs to the Orthodox patriarchate and remains open.

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