The Church of St. Michael the Archangel is one of Poland's wooden churches listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Dating from the 16th century, the current building dates from 1791. Abandoned after the Second World War, the church was renovated in 2004-2005. The only unchanged element of the original church is a fragment of polychrome representing a curtain supported by angels and empty cartridges.
The Great Synagogue and Beit Midrash in Turka is an Ashkenazi synagogue completed around 1900. The synagogue was given a Neo-Baroque style.
The wooden Church of St. Michael was probably built in 1777. Tyvodar Lehotskyy, a Ukrainian historian, believes that the building was actually constructed a while before this date. According to him, 1777 would be the time of the churches' consecration after the building had been renovated. The building is entirely made of oak and the tower is 22 meters high. It is the only remaining classical Lemko wooden church in the Carpathians. The church was built in an old Ukrainian style, with Baroque towers.
The building had originally been constructed somewhere else, but it was moved to the Uzhhorod Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life in 1972, after a period of abandonment during the Sovjet times.
The Synagogue in Staryi Sambir is a Hasidic synagogue from the 19th century. This Historicist brick synagogue now serves as a storage space.
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