WOODEN ORTHODOX CHURCHES OF GALICIA

Abstract

Since the end of the nineteenth century (i.e., for over 150 years), many studies that presented and analysed the structural systems and forms of wooden Orthodox churches. Various researchers classified and named elements and forms of these church buildings differently – especially so in the case of the individual parts of the churches. The author has investigated the structures and forms of wooden Orthodox Eastern Catholic churches since 1989. The research problem presented in this paper is architecture – the structure and form of Greek Catholic wooden churches that have survived their turbulent histories in Poland and Ukraine.