The Ecumenical Culture Center in Myczkowce

The Ecumenical Culture Center established in the Caritas center of the Rzeszów Diocese in Myczkowce on the initiative of the director of the Facility - Bogdan Janik and was opened on 16^th of October 2007. This place was dedicated to Pope John Paul II who was great promoter of ecumenism. Entering through the gate, there is an inscription above it: "Let there be love above all." The center occupies an area of 0.8 ha, where on 10 heaped hills 140 mock-ups were placed on a scale of 1:25 of the oldest wooden Roman Catholic churches, Orthodox and Greek Catholic churches from the area of south-eastern Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine. Individual hills reflect the construction of individual ethnographic groups that once inhabited these areas, namely: Pogorzans, Zamieszańcy, Lemkos, Slovakian Lemkos, Polish-Russian Group, Dolinianie, Mixed terrain, Boykos and Ukrainian Boykos. Mock-ups were built by a team of people led by Janusz Kulig from Chmielnik nearby Rzeszów, while the terrain architecture was prepared by Norbert Piekarski from Blizne. Near the mock-ups, the vegetation very similar to the original one was planted, and Orthodox church music and recordings of the Pope's sermons come from the speakers.