The Church of St. James ( Polish. Cerkiew w. Jakuba ) is a wooden Roman Catholic (formerly Lemkova Greek Catholic ) church in the village of Povrozhnik of the Malopolska province . In 2013, the temple was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List along with other wooden churches of the Carpathian region of Poland and Ukraine . [1] [2]
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Description
The temple in Povroznik has been known since 1604, but only the sacristy has survived from the original building. The appearance of the modern church was formed in the XVII — XVIII centuries. However, the building was significantly rebuilt during the reconstruction of 1813. The church was moved from the old place to the new one because of the risk of flooding.
The church belongs to the classical examples of Lemko style. [3] It has a thirty-plan plan, a bell tower with sloping walls, which is crowned with a wooden tent with a forged cross. A 1615 bell is installed on the tower. Above the nave stands the cupola covered with a tent roof. The altar on the outside is also surmounted by a small dome. The church, as was customary in the ancient Lemkov churches, has windows only on the south side. It had practical (protection from snow and gusts of wind) and mystical significance (according to popular belief, the forces of evil came from the north). After the Vistula operation in 1947, when the Lemki were resettled in the western territories of Poland , the church was used by the Roman Catholic Church .
There are no frescoes in the temple, but the iconostasis of the 18th century is preserved. In connection with the use of the church by Catholics, it was reequipped: the icon of Deesis and the prophets were placed on the east wall of the nave, other icons hang right on the altar wall. Preserved icons from the previous iconostasis of the XVII century, as well as images of the “ Last Judgment ” (1623) and “ Lamentation of Christ ” (1646).
The temple is surrounded by stone walls with statues of saints.
Notes
- ↑ Trees of the Church of the Carpathians have contributed to the List of UNESCO World Heritage List
- ↑ Carpathian churches have become a decade UNESCO // Українська Pravda / Іstorichna truth. - Nedіlya, 23 June 2013
- ↑ Taras J. M. Lemkiv School of National Temple Budivnitstva // Zbіrnik materials of the All-Ukrainian Scientific Conference, assigned to 65th-level deportation of Ukrainian Ukrainians from the Territory of Poland to Ukraine. - Lugansk, 2010. - p. 37-47
Literature
- Taras Ya. M. The Ukrainian sacral architecture of the tree — Lviv, 2006 — p. 235–238.
- Malinowscy G. i Z., Marciniszyn E. i P. Ikony i cerkwie. Tajemnice łemkowskich wiątyń, Carta Blanca, Warszawa 2009.