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Unique wooden temples

Transcarpathia is known for its unique wooden churches, one of them is the Church of St. Michael in Uzhok village is even included in the UNESCO heritage list. Most of these temples were built by unknown masters "by eye", the "Stare Selo" Museum in Uzhgorod without a plan, without nails and saw, and only with the help of hands and an ax. An example of such wooden architecture can be found in museum-skansen is the Archangel Michael Church, built in the village of Shelestova in the Mukachevo region in 1777year This is the only classical Lemki temple that remained in Transcarpathia, and in Ukraine as a whole only two In the 1920s, it was moved to Mukachevo, and from there in 1974 to the Museum of the People's of architecture and everyday life in Uzhhorod. The central and eastern log cabins of the temple have preserved multi-tiered, yes the so-called Tent-ceiling form of the floor. A slender bell tower rises above the church. Roofing it is made of shingles - oak flaky ploughshares, and the lower tier of the roof is supported by carved pillars. As and in its other wooden "sisters", no one knows the genius author of the Shelestiv Church. The Old Village open-air museum in Uzhgorod fascinates everyone who has visited it at least once in their life, because transports to the past of a strange region, demonstrating unique historical architectural charms and traditions of the end of the XIX - the first quarter of the XX centuries. It's like being in Transcarpathia in miniature!

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Elizaveta Tiborivna Beleikanych




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