Cerkiew Narodzenia Przenajświętszej Bogurodzicy w Chotyńcu
Mother of God Church in Chojnice
Religion
AffiliationUkrainian Greek Catholic Church
Statusactive church
Location
LocationPoland Chojnice, Poland
Architecture
Completedc. 1600
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

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]

History

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

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ "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.

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