wooden churches

WOODEN CHURCHES

Prešov region

Wooden churches in general• Built around Europe, most of them in Slovakia.• All parts had to be made of wood, no iron nails.• Tserkvas („cerkvy“)• 16th – 19th century• Roman Catholic Protestant prayer houses Greek Catholic,later Orthodox• 26 churches, 4 on the UNESCO list (2008)• Higher then the rest of the buildings

Composition, Interior • Lemko type :3 parts symbolize Holy Trinity

• Entering part • Main part • altar

• Wooden shingle• wall of icons /iconostas (from Greek “eikon” - picture, “stasis” – building)

Church of St Luke the Evangelist in BreZany• The only one in Prešov district• 1727• Cemetery

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wooden church of St Francis of Assisi in Hervatov

• UNESCO•Oldest (1500), best preserved

articular church in KeZmarok

Greek Catholic Wooden Church of St Nicholas in

BodruZalˇ

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