Mother of God Church, Chotyniec
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 |
Mother of God Church in Chotyniec - 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
- ^ "woj. podkarpackie – pow. bieszczadzki" (PDF). NID. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ "Cerkiew greckokatolicka pw. Narodzenia Przenajświętszej Bogurodzicy". Architektura. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ "Chotyniec: cerkiew Narodzenia NMP". Dziedzictwo. Retrieved 13 March 2016.