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St. James Church, Powroźnik

St. James Church, Powroźnik

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St. James Church is a Gothic, wooden church located in the village of Powroźnik, southern Poland. It dates from the seventeenth or eighteenth-century. Together with different tserkvas it is designated as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine".[1]

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History

The tserkva in Powroźnik has existed since around 1600, but only a part of the former structure remains, arranged into the sacristy of the present tserkva. The architecture of the present tserkva was constructed between the seventeenth and eighteenth-century, with a major reconstruction in 1813.[2] The tserkva was moved from its former location due to the danger posed by flooding, after which it was expanded. After Operation Vistula the tserkva was transformed to a Roman Catholic church.[3]

References

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    "woj. małopolskie – pow. bocheński" (PDF). NID. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
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    "Cerkiew pw. św. Jakuba Młodszego Apostoła w Powroźniku". Drewniana Małopolska. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
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    Marciniszyn, Grażyna i Zygmunt Malinowscy, Elżbieta i Piotr (2009). Ikony i cerkwie : tajemnic łemkowskich świątyń (Wyd. 1. ed.). Warszawa: Carta Blanca. ISBN 9788361444152.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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