St. Paraskevi Church, Kwiatoń

St. Paraskevi Church in Kwiatoń - a Gothic, wooden church located in the village of Kwiatoń from the nineteenth-century, which together with different tserkvas is designated as part of the UNESCO Wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.[1]

Cerkiew św. Paraskewy w Kwiatoniu
St. Paraskevi Church in Kwiatoń
Religion
AffiliationRoman Catholicism
Statusactive church
Location
Location Kwiatoń, Poland
Architecture
Completedc. 1700
Official name: Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine
TypeCultural
Criteriaiii, iv
Designated2013 (37th session)
Reference no.1424
State Party Poland
RegionEurope

History

The tserkva was built in the second half of the seventeenth-century. The date of the completion of the tserkva was dated at 1700. The tower was built in 1743. The date for the completion of the tserkva was found on one of its wooden framework columns. However, this date could relate to the renovation of the old tower.[2] The tserkva's tower is considered to be the oldest tower built in the Lemko church architectural style. After Operation Vistula, the tserkva was transformed into a Roman Catholic church, belonging to the Uście Gorlickie parish.[3]

References
  1. "woj. małopolskie – pow. bocheński" (PDF). NID. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  2. "History and Architecture". Odkryj Małopolskę. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  3. Kutaś, Paweł (2013). Zabytki architektury drewnianej powiatu gorlickiego. Zakrzów: Wydawnictwo PROMO. ISBN 9788360941461.

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