Wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Kwiatoń, Lemko Greek Catholic church
Location	Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine
Includes	16 wooden churches, eight in each country
Criteria	Cultural: (iii), (iv)
Reference	1424
Inscription	2013 (37th Session)
Area	7.03 ha (17.4 acres)
Buffer zone	92.73 ha (229.1 acres)
370km 230miles

The Wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine (Polish: Drewniane cerkwie regionu karpackiego w Polsce i na Ukrainie; Ukrainian: Дерев'яні церкви карпатського регіону Польщі та України, romanized: derev'yani tserkvy karpatsʹkoho rehionu Polʹshchi i Ukrayiny) are a group of wooden Orthodox (and some Eastern Catholic) churches (in Ukrainian, церкви tserkvy, in Polish cerkiew) 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^[1]

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine

50km
31miles

Matkiv

Yasinia

Uzhok

Nyzhnii Verbizh

Rohatyn

Drohobych

Zhovkva

Potelych

Turzańsk

Smolnik

Radruż

Powroźnik

Owczary

Kwiatoń

Chotyniec

Brunary

   

• Lemko Region
• Vernacular architecture of the Carpathians
• Carpathian wooden churches