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The article presents the circumstances of finding the oldest wooden tserkva in Ukraine, in the village Stara Skvaryava near Zhovkva. The finding was made on the occasion of creating documentation of the renovation of that disused church. The oldest references to the village Skvaryava come from 1515, and to the church itself – from 1578. The subsequent broader information regarding the church appeared...
The scope of the paper is a comprehensive and synthetic presentation of the architectural forms of orthodox churches (cerkvas) on the western boundary of the area where timber forms of Eastern-rite churches can be found, which is the area appropriated to the Polish territory after World War Two. Many Orthodox timber churches have been preserved to date, and some churches are known from archival, iconographic...
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