Mother of God Church in Chotyniec is a Gothic wooden church located in the village of Chotyniec from the seventeenth-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 Narodzenia Przenajświętszej Bogurodzicy w Chotyńcu Mother of God Church in Chojnice | |
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| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Status | active church |
| Location | |
| Location |  Chojnice, Poland |
| Architecture | |
| Completed | c. 1600 |
| Official name: Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine | |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | iii, iv |
| Designated | 2013 (37th session) |
| Reference no. | 1424 |
| State Party | Poland |
| Region | Europe |
History edit
The first document recording the existence of the tserkva originates from 1671.[2] The tserkva is one of numerous active Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church tserkvas in Poland, which survived World War II and the subsequent Polish population transfers. The tserkva had undergone numerous renovations and was reconstructed in 1733, 1858, and 1925. After the 1947 Operation Vistula (displacement of Ukrainian minorities out of the Polish People's Republic), the tserkva was closed, and transformed into a Roman Catholic church. In the 1980s, the tserkva was closed due to its poor structural state. In 1990, the tserkva was taken back by its previous owner and re-transformed into a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church tserkva. Between 1991 and 1994, the tserkva underwent a complex renovation, mainly by the help of the local parishioners.[3]
References edit
- ^ "zestawienia zabytkow nieruchomych: woj. podkarpackie – pow. bieszczadzki" [List of immovable monuments] (PDF). NID (in Polish). 31 December 2015. p. 24. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ "Cerkiew greckokatolicka pw. Narodzenia Przenajświętszej Bogurodzicy" [Greek Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God]. Architektura (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2016-03-14. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ "Chotyniec: cerkiew Narodzenia NMP" [Chotyniec: Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary]. Dziedzictwo (in Polish). 2007. Archived from the original on 2011-04-24. Retrieved 13 March 2016.