Chotyniec is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Radymno __NOTOC__ Gmina Radymno is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Jarosław County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. Its seat is the town of Radymno, although the town is not part of the terri ...

, within Jarosław County, in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine. It lies approximately east of Radymno, east of Jarosław, and east of the regional capital Rzeszów. It lies on the Route of Wooden Architecture.

''Cerkiew'' (Wooden Church) of the Holy Mother of God

This Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, probably founded in 1617, is one of the few still active Greek Catholic churches in Poland that survived both World War II and the deportations afterwards. The church has been renovated a number of times (''e.g.'' in 1733 and 1858), and was closed from 1925 until 1947. It then became a Roman Catholic church until somewhere in the 1980s, when it was abandoned. After the fall of Poland's communist regime it became a Ukrainian Greek Catholic church again. It was extensively restored between 1991 and 1994, mostly paid for by local parishioners. The building is of distinguished originality because of its harmonious, solid appearance. Inside, a complete

iconostasis In Eastern Christianity, an iconostasis ( gr, εἰκονοστάσιον) is a wall of icons and religious paintings, separating the nave from the sanctuary in a Church (building), church. ''Iconostasis'' also refers to a portable icon stand t ...

can be seen, as can a

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painting of the

last judgment The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (; ar, یوم القيامة, translit=Yawm al-Qiyāmah or ar, یوم الدین, translit=Yawm ad-Dīn, ...

from 1735. In 2013 Church was inscribed onto UNESCO World Heritage Site list. Chotyniec4

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