The wooden Gothic church of All Saints in Blizne was built in the mid-1400s

Church of All Saints in Blizne

Blizne 436,

36-221 Blizne

 

www.blizne.przemyska.pl

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The church along with the presbytery complex from the 18th -19th centuries is one of the oldest facilities of wooden religious architecture in Poland. The interior of the church consists of a vestibule, square nave and chancel. The chancel is adorned with ornamental and figurative polychromes from 1550, 1649 and 1700. Other church features include a late Renaissance ambo from 1604, high altar from 1700, two late Baroque side altars from the 17th century and a baptismal font from the first half of the 18th century. The church lies on the Wooden Architecture Route of the Podkarpackie Region (Trail no. 1 – Krosno -Brzozów area). In 2003 the church was entered onto the UNESCO World Heritage List.

 

Read more about the attraction on the Wooden Architecture Route website

 

READ MORE ABOUT UNESCO and wooden architecture in the Low Beskid

 

Places worth seeing nearby

Czarnorzeki-Strzyżów Landscape Park

The Historic Cars Museum in Jasienica Rosielna

  • Artificial lake in Blizne

  • Old manorial park in Jasienica Rosielna

  • Mount of St. Michael with a 19th century shrine

  • Połom Hill with a shrine of Saints Peter and Paul from 1819

 

 

photo: Krystian Kłysewicz