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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