Child:	yes
Official Name:	Chotyniec-Tserkva of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Part Of:	Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine
Criteria:	(iii), (iv)
Id:	1424-002
Year:	2013
Area:	0.67ha
Buffer Zone:	4.34ha

Chotyniec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Radymno, within Jarosław County, in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine. It lies approximately 15km (09miles) east of Radymno, 260NaN0 east of Jarosław, and 740NaN0 east of the regional capital Rzeszów.^[1] It lies on the Route of Wooden Architecture.

Cerkiew (Wooden Church) of the Holy Mother of God

See main article: article and Mother of God Church, Chotyniec. This Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, probably founded in 1617, is one of the few still active Greek Catholic churches in Poland that survived both World War II and the deportations afterwards. The church has been renovated a number of times (e.g. in 1733 and 1858), and was closed from 1925 until 1947. It then became a Roman Catholic church until somewhere in the 1980s, when it was abandoned. After the fall of Poland's communist regime it became a Ukrainian Greek Catholic church again. It was extensively restored between 1991 and 1994, mostly paid for by local parishioners.

The building is of distinguished originality because of its harmonious, solid appearance. Inside, a complete iconostasis can be seen, as can a Baroque painting of the last judgment from 1735.

In 2013 Church was inscribed onto UNESCO World Heritage Site list.

Notes and References

Web site: Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) . 2008-06-01 . Polish.