🏛️ Wooden <em>Tserkvas</em> of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine

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The Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine are a group of wooden Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic churches located in Poland and Ukraine which were inscribed in 2013 on the UNESCO World Heritage List which explains:built of horizontal wooden logs between the 16th and 19th centuries by communities of Orthodox and Greek Catholic faiths. The tserkvas bear testimony to a distinct building tradition rooted in Orthodox ecclesiastic design interwoven with elements of local tradition, and symbolic references to their communities’ cosmogony. — World Heritage Centre

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Wooden <em>Tserkvas</em> of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine is a cultural World Heritage site in Poland, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Wooden <em>Tserkvas</em> of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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