The Church dedicated to the Nativity of John the Baptist in Michniowiec

, 38-710 Michniowiec
49°18'05"N 22°43'58"E (49.301528, 22.732861)

The filial church in Michniowiec is a former Greek Catholic Church of The Nativity of the Mother of God dated 1863. Located on a small hill, in the center of the village. It is a wooden property, set on a stone wall base. The church is orientated, tripartite, nave is the biggest and what is rare in Carpathian churches – it is built on an octagonal plan and topped with a dome. The roof is covered with metal sheet.

Inside is an unusual, as semicircular iconostasis, adapted to the rainbow’s arch. The lower part of the icons was disassembled and hung in different places. The governor's icons are hung in the nave and present Saint Nicholas, Mother of God with the Child and the scene of killing the Abel. The Tsarist gate, on the other hand, hangs in presbytery. Above the altar is a canopy. On the walls and dome there are figurative polychromes from 1983. Three-storey wooden bell tower built in 1904 is next to the Orthodox church.

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