Cerkiew sw. Paraskewy (Kwiatoń)

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View of the Church (2016)

The Cerkiew św. Paraskewy ( St. Paraskewi Church , Ukrainian Церква святої Параскеви ) is a wooden church in Kwiatoń in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland . The church is part of the cross-border UNESCO - World Heritage " wooden churches in the Carpathian region " and which is a martyr Paraskevi of Iconium consecrated. It was a Greek Catholic house of worship and has been used by the Roman Catholic Church since 1947. The building is considered a "classic example of Lemkian sacred architecture".

history

Design of the roofs and domes
View of the tower (2012)
Reconstructed access gate and redesigned fence (2016)

The church was built in the second half of the 17th century, according to experts from the year 1700. The tower dates back to 1743 at the latest. A bar of the structure is marked with this date. However, this can also be a renovation of the older building. It is the oldest, dated tower of a Lemken church . The furnishings date from the 18th and 19th centuries. Michał Bogdański painted the iconostasis in 1904 . The buildings were repeatedly renovated, the church in 1811, 1904, 1967 and 1990–1991 and the tower in 1863, 1911, 1928, 1967 and also in the 1990s.

Kwiatoń was still inhabited by Ruthenians in 1900 . Of the 235 inhabitants, 228 were Greek Catholics and seven were Jews. After the end of World War II in 1945, a dozen families moved east. With the exception of two families, the remaining Lemken were expelled in June 1947 as part of the Vistula campaign .

The church has been a branch church of the Roman Catholic community in Uście Gorlickie since 1951 . The church is dedicated to the Queen of Mary Virgin Mary Queen ( Polish pw.Najświętszej Maryi Panny Królowej ).

The church has been open to visitors since 2007. The wooden fence with shingle cover was designed in 2000 and replaces a concrete fence. In 2012, the shingle was renovated and preserved and new lightning protection installed.

The complex was included in the tentative list of world cultural heritage in 2010 with seven other wooden churches of the Eastern Churches in the Subcarpathian region and in Lesser Poland . The enrollment took place on June 21, 2013 together with eight other objects from Ukraine.

Plant and equipment

The wooden church belongs to the building type of the western Lemkenland (Łemkowszczyzna) . The building is in three parts and is divided into a choir , nave and tower. These consist of cut logs that are laid horizontally. The domes are square and two-fold over the choir and three-fold over the main nave. All three parts of the building carry double bulbs with a lantern between them . They are each crowned with wrought iron crosses. The entire structure and the roofs are clad or covered with wooden shingles.

The furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries has been preserved and is late baroque . The iconostasis, designed in 1904, separates the choir from the nave in the late Baroque tradition and has been preserved inside. The polychrome paintings date from the renovation in 1811. In addition to the paintings, columns and cornices are imitated from marble . The iconostasis, designed in 1904, separates the choir from the nave. The main altar dates from the 19th century, two side altars show icons of Our Lady with the child and the descent from the cross. The works of art and icons were restored between 2005 and 2015. During this work, a fragment of the first iconostasis from the beginning of the 17th century was discovered in 2010.

See also

Web links

Commons : Cerkiew św. Paraskewy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ The Greek Catholic Parish Church of St. Paraskewia in Kwiatoń. (accessed on July 31, 2020)
  2. ↑ a b c d parafiauscie.pl: Kwiatoń - pw.NMP Królowej. (Polish, accessed July 31, 2020)
  3. ↑ Ludwig Patryn (Ed.): Community encyclopedia of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat, edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900, XII. Galicia. Vienna 1907.
  4. ↑ Witold Grzesik Tomasz Traczyk, Bartłomiej Wada: Beskid Niski od Komańczy do Wysowej. Sklep Podróżniczy, Warszawa 2012, ISBN 978-83-71360-87-9 , pp. 332-335.
  5. ↑ whc.unesco.org: Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine. (English, accessed on July 14, 2020)

Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 3.2 ″  N , 21 ° 10 ′ 25.3 ″  E