Wooden Churches of the Carpathian Region

The Carpathian Region's Wooden Tserkvas consists of 16 wooden churches constructed from horizontal logs in Poland and Ukraine. They are scattered throughout the Carpathian Mountains. In the 16th and 19th centuries, congregations of Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic faiths constructed them.

In 2011, UNESCO added sixteen wooden churches from the Carpathian area of Ukraine and Poland to the World Heritage List. Ukraine is home to eight of them. Galician, Lemko, Boyko, and Hutsul are the four architectural styles used to construct churches. This is an example of a now-extinct wood-building tradition.