| Building Name: | Cerkiew św. Jakuba w Powroźniku St. James Church in Powroźnik |
| Location: | Powroźnik, Poland |
| Geo: | 49.3696°N 20.9504°W |
| Functional Status: | active church |
| Year Completed: | 17-18 century |
| 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 |
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]
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]