Descent of the Holy Spirit Church, Potelych

Wooden Descent of the Holy Spirit Church was built in suburb of Potelych, Ukraine in 1502 on the place of a church that burned down by tatars. It is the oldest wooden church in Lviv Oblast. Church was visited by Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

The structure consisits of three wooden naves and a brick sacristy.

On June 21, 2013 on the 37th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Cambodja the Holy Trinity Church was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List among 16 wooden tserkvas of Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine.


Country:
Ukraine
Rating:
1
Latitude:
50,20862
Longitude:
23,5507886
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