According to the dating on the portal, the Church of St. Michael the Archangel, also called the Wooden Orthodox Church, was built in 1777 as a three-part log building, protected from the outside by vertical boards. It stands on a raised stone foundation which levels the slope of the ground to the west. The entrance to the vestibule is on the west side. A special feature is the overlapping of the roof spaces between the tower and the nave and between the nave and the sanctuary. The church was reconstructed in 1902 and in 1946-1947. The current appearance is the result of reconstruction work in 2001-2002. The interior includes four rococo candlesticks from the second half of the 18th century.
The vestibule of the temple (babinec) forms the undercroft, which is harmoniously incorporated into the construction of the wooden building. The self-supporting tower and the three-tiered, four-angled, needle-cut dome above the sanctuary and the nave are topped with small Baroque onion bulbs on which wrought metal crosses are placed. The pyramidal roof of the sacral building and the tower are covered with shingles. The log cabin and the two upper floors of the tower are vertically sheathed with boards and battens.
The iconostasis dates from the second half of the 18th century. It is wooden, polychrome, with four rows of icons and tsar's doors, decorated with carving and painting. Some of the icons are from the 17th century.
In the first, the main row of icons, there are icons of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of the Eastern Church, the Mother of God Hodegetria, the signpost in the shape of a Greek Madonna standing with a child sitting on her left hand, Jesus Christ the Teacher and St. Michael the Archangel. The deacon's door is not fitted with a casement. The imperial double-leaf door contains six medallions bearing the four Evangelists and scenes of the Annunciation. In the second row are depictions of the major feasts of the Greek Catholic Church, centered with an icon of the Last Supper. The third row consists of the icons of the Apostles in the centre with the icon of Jesus Christ Pantocrator. Christ blesses people of good will with his right hand and has a halo over his head. The fourth row consists of ten medallions depicting prophets. The top of the iconostasis is the icon of the Crucifixion. On the sides are the figures of the Mother of God and St. John the Evangelist. There is also an icon of St. Nicholas from the 16th century. St. Nicholas, the patron saint of the Eastern Church.
On the altar, decorated with a rocaille, there is a cabinet divine tabernacle and an icon of the Crucifixion. Remarkable are the Veraikon icons, a supposed imprint of Christ's face on a linen shawl, with a 17th century depiction of St. Michael, St. Nicholas.
The temple originally had three bells, one of which weighed 200 kg. In 1915, the Hungarian state authorities had two of the bells, the smallest and the largest, removed and used for military purposes. Today there are also three bells hanging in the tower, one of which dates back to 1759. The two bells were added in the 1920s, for which the inhabitants of the village collected funds.
Source : wikipedia
Photo: Henryk Bielamowicz
