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

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in the

Svidník District Svidník District (''okres Svidník'') is a district in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia. Until 1918, the district was part of the Hungarian county of Šariš (Sáros). Municipalities * Belejovce * Beňadikovce * Bodružal * Cernina * ...

Prešov Region The Prešov Region (, ; ), also Priashiv Region (, ), is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions and consists of 13 districts (okresy) and 666 municipalities, 23 of which have town status. The region was established in 1996 and is the mos ...

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

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wooden

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...

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

Saint Nicholas Church (Bodružal)

St. Nicholas Church is a wooden

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of the Eastern Rite situated in a village Bodružal in

Svidník Svidník (, , , ) 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 Soviet Army Memorial in the city, in memory of Battle of the Dukla Pass. Geog ...

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.

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Surnames of living people in Bodruzal
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bodruzal Villages and municipalities in Svidník District Šariš

Genealogical resources

Saint Nicholas Church (Bodružal)

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