The Synaxis Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Synaxis Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a wooden tserkvas built in 1838. It is an important monument of Boykos architecture. Its bell tower was built later in 1924.

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The Church of the Synaxis of Archangel Michael

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.