Brygidki
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Brygidki () is a prison in the building of a former Bridgettine nunnery in Lviv, Ukraine.
==History== The monastery was founded in 1614 at the behest of Anna Fastkowska and Anna Poradowska for girls from noble families. After the Partition of Poland the Austrian administration decided to secularise the convent. In 1784 the Brygidki building was turned into a prison, where death sentences would be carried out on a regular basis until the 1980s.
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