Bodružal (1927–1973: ; rue, Бодруджал; hu, Rózsadomb, until 1899: ) is a municipality (village) in

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the ...

in the Svidník District in

Prešov Region The Prešov Region, also Priashiv Region ( sk, Prešovský kraj, ; hu, Eperjesi kerület; uk, Пряшівський край) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions and consists of 13 districts (okresy) and 666 municipalities, 23 o ...

, within the

Laborec Highlands The Laborec Highlands (in Slovak, ''Laborecká vrchovina'') is a mountain range in northeastern Slovakia, part of the Lower Beskids of the Outer Eastern Carpathians. The range is composed of Carpathian flysch. Bordered in the north by the Poli ...

. Slovensko Ľud ; 1. a 2. časť, Vydavateľstvo Obzor, (Bratislava 1974). The village, first mentioned in writing in 1600, is best known for housing a

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including ...

wooden

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chri ...

being a national cultural monument in Slovakia.

Genealogical resources

The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Presov, Slovakia" * Greek Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1823-1922 (parish A) File:Zákop z prvej svetovej vojny (október 1914) v obci Bodružal.jpg,

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remains in the forest near Bodružal File:Bodružal ZeliPVL.JPG, Bodružal in summer File:Bodruza Chranena krajina oblast Vychodne Karpaty.JPG, Bodružal in the

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s file:Bodruzal historicka zastavba.jpg, Bodružal in winter file:Bodruzal Nizke Beskydy udolie Bodruzalika.jpg, Bodružal in spring

Saint Nicholas Church (Bodružal)

St. Nicholas Saint Nicholas of Myra, ; la, Sanctus Nicolaus (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor (; modern-day Demre ...

Church is a wooden

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of the Eastern Rite situated in a village Bodružal in

Svidník Svidník ( hu, Felsővízköz, german: Oberswidnik, rue, Свідник, uk, Свидник) is a town in eastern Slovakia, the capital of the Svidník District in the Prešov Region. It has a population of around 11,000. There is a monumental ...

district in the

. It is registered on the

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under an identification number 1273-007 since 8 July 2008. The

is part of a unique urban entity situated on an elevated place in the village centre. Apart from the church hall, there's a separate bell tower, an adjacent cemetery and a wooden enclosure with a shingle roof and an entrance gate covered by a conical and an onion shape roof. The church itself is a prototype church of the so-called Lemko type. It dates back to 1658 and belongs to the oldest wooden sacral buildings of the Eastern Rites in Slovakia. The church has three towers. The construction is made out of logs, in a shape of three squares arranged on the same axis oriented from east to west. The exterior is decorated with vertically laid planks. The logs were also used on the construction of imitation tiered corbelled arches (of a truncated pyramid) in the sanctum and the nave. The arrangement of individual parts of the church represents the Holy Trinity. The church is situated on the highest hillock of the village. With its location it is higher than the rest of the buildings and houses. The roof is made out of shingles. The tent roof above the presbytery and the nave is finished with a short square structure, to which conical bodies are attached to. To them baroque onion-like little roofs are fixed, finished with small shingle conical heads set with wrought iron crosses.

Genealogical resources

Saint Nicholas Church (Bodružal)

See also