The Church of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Łodzina

The Orthodox Church dedicated to Nativity of the Mother of God in Łodzina was built in 1743 in place of an older one, destroyed during the Tatar invasion. It is a wooden, oriented (eastward), with timber framing structure, tripartite, shingled temple on a wild stone foundation. The temple is a relatively early example of Latinisation, i.e. a tendency in Orthodox church architecture to refer to the architecture of Western churches.

Inside there is an iconostasis made probably around 1875, four-row, with the icons of folk nature. In the row of vicarious icons of St. Nicholas, the Holy Mother in the Hodigitria type, Christ Pantocrator and St. Anna Samotrzeć. On the antepedium there are St. Peter and Paul, Christ in the Temple, St. Anna and Zechariah. The deacon gates are transparent, and in round icons are the prophets Abdiah and Melchizedech. In a row of “prazdniki”, which means Church holiday icons there are12 scenes from the life of Mary and Christ. In the Deesis row are Christ Pantocrator and the twelve apostles, painted in pairs. At the very top the prophets are presented. In the Orthodox church there are also painted on the boards folk icons from the mid-19^th century transferred from Mrzygłód.

The area around the church is fenced with a wooden hurdle. Just in front of the building is a huge, few-century-old oak tree.

After 1946 the church was taken over by the Roman Catholic Church and has been serving as a church to this day.