| Building Name: | Cerkiew Opieki Matki Bożej w Owczarach Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Church |
| Location: | Owczary, Poland |
| Religious Affiliation: | Roman Catholicism Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
| Functional Status: | active church |
| Year Completed: | 1653 |
| Designation1: | WHS |
| Designation1 Offname: | Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine |
| Designation1 Date: | 2013 (37th session) |
| Designation1 Number: | 1424 |
| Designation1 Criteria: | iii, iv |
| Designation1 Type: | Cultural |
| Designation1 Free1name: | State Party |
| Designation1 Free2name: | Region |
| Designation1 Free2value: | Europe |
Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Church in Owczary is a Gothic, wooden church located in the village of Owczary from the seventeenth century, which together with different tserkvas is designated as part of the UNESCO Wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.[1]
The tserkva in Owczary was raised in 1653. The tserkva is the second building of its type in this location - the first collapsed due to quicksand in its foundations. In 1701, the tserkva's chancery underwent extensive renovation, the tower was built in 1783 (built by meisters Dimitr Dekowekin and Teodor Rusinka), in 1870, the building was widened, to have equal measurements to that of the nave. In 1938, the tserkva's interior was decorated with a polychrome.[2] After Operation Vistula, the tserkva was transferred to the Roman Catholic parish. After some of the displaced villagers came back to the village in 1956, the tserkva had also restarted Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church services. Since 1998, the tserkva began to function as a Roman Catholic-Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.[3]