Wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List
Type	Cultural
Criteria	iii, iv
Reference	1424
UNESCO region	Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription	2013 (137th Session)

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine are a group of wooden Orthodox (and some Eastern Catholic) churches 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

Inscribed Tserkvas

Poland: Tserkva of St. Michael the Archangel, Brunary, Lesser Poland Tserkva of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Chotyniec Tserkva of St. Paraskevia, Kwiatoń Virgin Mary's Care Tserkva, Owczary St. James the Less Tserkva, Powroźnik Tserkva of St. Paraskevia, Radruż St. Michael the Archangel Tserkva, Smolnik St. Michael the Archangel Tserkva, Turzańsk, Sanok County

Ukraine: Descent of the Holy Spirit Church, Potelych (Polish: Potylicz), Zhovkva Raion Holy Trinity Church, Zhovkva St. George's Church, Drohobych St. Dmytro's Church, Matkiv Descent of the Holy Spirit Church, Rohatyn The Church of the Nativity of B.V.M., Nyzhniy Verbizh, Zakarpattia St. Archangel Michael Church, Uzhok Ascension of Our Lord Church, Yasinia, Yasinia, Zakarpattia

See also

• Vernacular architecture of the Carpathians
• Carpathian Wooden Churches
• Wooden churches of Southern Lesser Poland
• Wooden churches in Ukraine
• Wooden churches of the Slovak Carpathians
• Wooden churches of Maramureș