The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a wooden tserkvas built between 1756 and 1808. The church has the particularity of being covered with sheet metal. Its architect, Grigory Semeniuk the Little, received a gold medal of merit from the Austrian Emperor Ferdinand for this work.
According to the inscription above the southern door, the church was built in 1709. The same inscription also mentions the name of the master-carpenter who built the church: Yakiv from Sniatyn. The building underwent restorations in 1765 and during the 18th and 19th centuries. The church was closed in the early 1960s. It was recognized as a unique religious monument in 1968 and restored in 1980. The building reopened as part of the Pysanka Museum in 1983.
The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. The oldest gravestone relates to the mid-19th century, so it can be assumed that the cemetery emerged during that period. First, it appears on Austrian maps of the 1880s and later on Polish maps of 1939.
The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. The oldest preserved gravestone relates to the first half of the 18th century, so it can be assumed that the cemetery emerged during that period. According to the VAAD database, there is a gravestone of 1667, but it was not detected by ESJF surveyors team. The cemetery first appears on Austrian maps of the 1880s and, later, it was also marked on a Polish map of 1939.
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