Wooden Church of the Most Holy Mother of God, Korejovce

The wooden church from 1764 is built on a stone base, covered on the outside with vertical boards and strips. In front of the tower's vestibule, popularly called the granary, a miniature vestibule has been completed. In the past, the entrance to the church was situated from the south, as opposed to the current positioning from the east. All three parts of the temple, the tower vestibule, the square nave and the sanctuary are topped with onion towers in which crosses are set. The roof, including the turrets, is covered with shingles. There was no complete iconostasis in the temple. The oldest part of the inventory is the solitaire of the Hodigitria icon from the 17th century, on a coniferous wood panel. The main icon of Eleusis dates from the first half of the XVIII century. The cover, the icon below it is the work of a Polish workshop in Ryboticze and dates from the mid XVIII. Century. The wings of the Tsar's door were carved in some of the city's professional carving workshops and date from the end of the XVIIth century. According to oral tradition, during World War II the original Tsar's door was destroyed and replaced by the present one, imported from Krajna Bystra. Other icons placed in the church also come from Krajna Bystra, the now defunct church of St. Michael from 1791. The icon of St. Michael the Dragon Slayer is from the third third of the XVII century. The icon of St. Onufrio - the hermit saint wearing a leafy cloak around his loins, wrapped in a long beard, is from the same period. The pair of lions is a symbol of the hermit and virtues. The icon of Christ the Teacher in plain clothes dates from the last quarter of the seventeenth century. A series of feast days, the main festivals of the church year. The Icons of Christ and Mary date from the end of the XVIIth and the beginning of the XVIIIth century. The wooden belfry has three bells. One bell, dating from 1769, bears an inscription with a relief of the Holy Family. The second bell from 1771 has an inscription and a relief with a decoration of a cross, with the Virgin Mary underneath.

The bell tower and the wooden log three-space church - cerkov of the eastern type and rite are National Cultural Monuments.

Source : https://obeckorejovce.webnode.sk/kulturne-pamiatky/

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