The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Zawadka Rymanowska

, 38-450 Zawadka Rymanowska
49°30'22"N 21°43'29"E (49.506222, 21.724889)

The wooden church in Zawadka Rymanowska differs from the so far visited eastern churches regarding its compactness, as its three parts are crowned with a common, single-ridge roof, currently covered with sheet metal. The nave is only slightly wider than the presbytery and women's gallery (narthex), over which a small tower was erected, compared to the classic pattern of the Lemko church. It is crowned with a hipped roof, crowned with an onion-shaped cupola with an apparent lantern. A turret similar in form, although smaller in size, was integrated into the roof over the nave, while the four-sided lantern itself was placed above the presbytery.

The temple was built in the 1850s by a foreman named Bujakowskij, right next to the place where the old church from the 16th century stood. Only a brick presbytery was left of it, which was transformed into a chapel next to the present day.

Inside the church, a five-storey iconostasis has been preserved, dating back to the 18th century, although most of its icons were repainted in 1931. In the presbytery, the painting "Adoration of the Mother of God" from 1919, painted by Fr. Roman Isajczyk from Serednie Wielkie. An interesting late-baroque pulpit (17th/18th century) comes from a wooden church in neighboring Lubatowa, pulled down in 1920. Next to the church, there is a cemetery with 4 sandstone tombstones from the 19th / 20th century. After the local Lemko population was displaced in 1945-1947, the church was taken over by the Roman Catholic church.

The yellow trail from Dukla to Stasiana runs next to the temple.

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