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Historic parish church in Orawka, Lesser Poland Province. One of the points of the wooden architecture trail of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship belonging to the parish of St. John the Baptist in Orawka. The creation of the church dates back to 1651-1656, built on the initiative of Fr. Jan Szczechowicz. Is the oldest temple and the first parish of Polish Orava and the oldest wooden temple of Upper Orava. It is surrounded by trees and surrounded by a wall within which a cemetery is located. A wooden, single-nave church with a tower was built in a log construction; the roof and walls are covered with shingles. The elongated presbytery, polygonally closed, is narrower than the nave. A sacristy adjoins it from the north and a stone chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows, erected in 1728, from the east. A wooden porch is located on the south side of the nave. The church tower with sloping walls is topped with a room and a pyramidal helmet with four corner towers. The interior of the church and some... wyświetl cały opis

Historic parish church in Orawka, Lesser Poland Province. One of the points of the wooden architecture trail of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship belonging to the parish of St. John the Baptist in Orawka. The creation of the church dates back to 1651-1656, built on the initiative of Fr. Jan Szczechowicz. Is the oldest temple and the first parish of Polish Orava and the oldest wooden temple of Upper Orava. It is surrounded by trees and surrounded by a wall within which a cemetery is located. A wooden, single-nave church with a tower was built in a log construction; the roof and walls are covered with shingles. The elongated presbytery, polygonally closed, is narrower than the nave. A sacristy adjoins it from the north and a stone chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows, erected in 1728, from the east. A wooden porch is located on the south side of the nave. The church tower with sloping walls is topped with a room and a pyramidal helmet with four corner towers. The interior of the church and some of its furnishings were covered with figural and ornamental polychrome in the second half. XVII century and in 1711. The concept of the interior was designed by priest Orawki, priest Jan Szczechowicz. Polychrome depicts scenes from the life of St. John the Baptist, medallions with Christ and the apostles, images of saints worshiped in Hungary and coats of arms of people related to the history of Orava: emperor Ferdinand III Habsburg, archbishop Jerzy Lippay de Zongor and Moniaki. Scenes illustrating the Ten Commandments have been painted on the windowsill of the choir. On the rainbow beam there is the baroque group of the Crucifixion and inscriptions (one of them is the Polish text of the passion song). The late Baroque main and two side altars and stalls were made in the first half 18th century. The chapel also has Stations of the Cross from 1857 by Szczepan Sitarski.

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