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The Wooden ''Tserkvas'' of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine (; ) are a group of wooden Orthodox (and some
Eastern Catholic The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous (''sui iuris'') particular churches of ...
)
church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chri ...
es (in Ukrainian, церкви ''tserkvy'') located in
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
and
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which were inscribed in 2013 on the
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Inscribed Tserkvas


See also

* Vernacular architecture of the Carpathians * Carpathian Wooden Churches *
Wooden churches of Southern Lesser Poland The wooden churches of southern Lesser Poland () of the UNESCO inscription are located in Binarowa, Blizne, Dębno, Haczów, Lipnica Murowana, and Sękowa ( Lesser Poland Voivodeship or Małopolska). There are in fact many others of the region wh ...
*
Wooden churches in Ukraine Wooden church architecture in Ukraine dates from the beginning of Christianity in the area and comprises a set of unique styles and forms specific to many sub-regions of the country. As a form of vernacular culture, construction of the churches in ...
* Wooden churches of the Slovak Carpathians *
Wooden churches of Maramureș The wooden churches of Maramureș in the Maramureș region of northern Transylvania are a group of almost one hundred Orthodox churches, and occasionally Greek-Catholic ones, of different architectural solutions from different periods and areas. Th ...


References

{{World Heritage Sites in Ukraine * World Heritage Sites in Poland World Heritage Sites in Ukraine