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, wooden church located in the village of Haczów from the fifteenth-century, which together with different churches is designated as part of the UNESCO Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser Poland. The church in Haczów is the largest wooden

church in Europe, and simultaneously one of the oldest wooden framework churches in Poland.

History

The wooden church in Haczów was built out of a wooden framework, raised after 1459, and expanded in 1624 (with the building of the 25 metre starling tower, built away from the church, topped out with a cupola, '' :pl:soboty'' (low wooden arcade around the church supported by pillars), the creation of windows in the nave, and the building of an earth

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); between 1784 and 1789 (expansion of the

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, building of new ''soboty''). The interior of the church is decorated with a polychrome from 1494 (most likely the oldest polychrome of its type in Europe, representing the oldest collection of representative paintings in Poland), and later expanded in 1864.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Assumption of Holy Mary Church, Haczow World Heritage Sites in Poland Brzozów County Haczów Wooden churches in Poland