St. Michael Archangel's Church in Turzańsk | |
Native Name: | Cerkiew św. Michała Archanioła w Turzańsku |
Location: | Turzańsk, Poland |
Religious Affiliation: | Polish Orthodox Church |
Functional Status: | active church |
Groundbreaking: | 1801 |
Year Completed: | 1803, 1836 |
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. Michael Archangel's Church in Turzańsk (Polish: Cerkiew św. Michała Archanioła w Turzańsku, Ukrainian: Церква Архангела Михаїла) is a nineteenth-century wooden church located in the village of Turzańsk, 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 Turzańsk, established as an Eastern Orthodox Church tsekva, later Uniate, was referenced in the first half of the sixteenth century. The present tserkva was built at the start of the nineteenth century in 1801, and later expanded in 1836, with a foyer and sacristy. In 1896 and 1913, the tserkva had undergone renovations of its roof, strengthening it with tin. After the Ukrainian population was displaced from the area as part of Operation Vistula, the tserkva was used by Roman Catholics, between 1947 and 1961. In 1963, the tserkva was returned to the Polish Orthodox Church.[2] The interior of the tserkva exhibits original components: iconostasis from 1895, and a polychrome from the turning point of the nineteenth and twentieth century.[3]