WOODEN CHURCHES
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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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