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Wooden tserkvas of Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine

Wooden tserkvas of Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine
Wooden tserkvas of Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

The Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine are a group of wooden Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic churches (cerkwie, tserkvy) located in Poland and Ukraine which were inscribed in 2013 on the UNESCO World Heritage List which explains: built of horizontal wooden logs between the 16th and 19th centuries by communities of Orthodox and Greek Catholic faiths. The tserkvas bear testimony to a distinct building tradition rooted in Orthodox ecclesiastic design interwoven with elements of local tradition, and symbolic references to their communities’ cosmogony. — World Heritage Centre

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