Church Of Saint Michael The Archangel Of Ladomirová
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Church of Saint Michael the Archangel of Ladomirová is a
Greek-catholic Greek Catholic Church or Byzantine-Catholic Church may refer to: * The Catholic Church in Greece * The Eastern Catholic Churches that use the Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite: ** The Albanian Greek Catholic Church ** The Belarusian Gr ...
church situated in the village of
Ladomirová Ladomirová (; ) is a village and municipality in Svidník District in the Prešov Region of north-eastern Slovakia. The Church of Saint Michael the Archangel of Ladomirová, a wooden Greek Catholic church built in 1742, is part of the Carpathi ...
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History

An earlier church is believed to have existed in this place in 1600. The current church was constructed in wood in 1742. On July 7, 2008, the church along with seven other monuments was declared UNESCO
world heritage site World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection under an treaty, international treaty administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance. The sites are judged to contain "cultural and natural ...
under the name "
Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area Carpathian Wooden Churches is the name of a UNESCO World Heritage Site that consists of nine wooden religious buildings constructed between the 16th and 18th centuries in eight different locations in Slovakia. They include two Roman Catholic (Her ...
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Wooden churches World Heritage Sites in Slovakia Slovak Greek Catholic churches Wooden buildings and structures in Slovakia 18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Slovakia Churches completed in 1742 {{SlovakGreekCatholic-church-stub