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Cerkva of the Dormition / Church of the Sacred Heart, Wróblik Szlachecki

Wróblik Szlachecki, Wróblik Szlachecki, Podkarpackie

A Lemko cerkva that changed rite but not roofline, and its bell predates the building by 158 years.

📅 1869–present🏛️ ChurchRepurposedBuilt 1869
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Cerkva of the Dormition / Church of the Sacred Heart, Wróblik Szlachecki, Wróblik Szlachecki, Wróblik Szlachecki, Podkarpackie
Former Greek Catholic cerkva, Wróblik Szlachecki · Henryk Bielamowicz, CC BY-SA 3.0 PL via Wikimedia Commons

The story

Recorded in 1494 as Targowska, Wróblik Szlachecki was one of a cluster of Lemko villages forming a Rusyn enclave among Polish settlements around Rymanów. Its wooden Greek Catholic cerkva of the Dormition went up in 1869 in the north-eastern Lemko manner — log construction, three-part plan, presbytery lower than the nave, a tower set into the front wall under a sheet-metal dome, and two small bell turrets on the gabled roof. Inside are flat painted ceilings, 1871 murals by an artist from nearby Jaśliska, and a partial iconostasis. It was restored in 1926, enlarged with a sacristy in 1946 when it passed to Roman Catholic use as the Church of the Sacred Heart, and restored again in 1980–81, entering the heritage register in 1985. The post-war years were violent in more than one direction here: Ukrainian nationalist units are recorded killing seven Poles in the village in 1945–46 and burning 120 by-then-empty Lemko farmsteads. About 4.5 km north of Rymanów.

Everything that was here

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Its bell was cast in 1711, 158 years before the building.
The freestanding octagonal brick bell tower is out of use; bells now hang on modern metal frames.
Only part of the iconostasis survives; the rest went when the rite changed.

Connected places

Tserkva of St Michael the Archangel, Turzańsk

Turzańsk, Podkarpackie
Lemko

Cerkva of the Protection of the Mother of God, Komańcza (original)

Komańcza, Podkarpackie
Lemko

Church of the Translation of the Relics of St Nicholas, Królik Wołoski (ruin)

Królik Wołoski, Podkarpackie
Greek Catholic

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Nearby history

Hotel Restauracja Jaś Wędrowniczek

ul. Dra Bieleckiego 8 · 4.2 km away
Everyone has heard of Johnnie Walker. The roadside inn on the Krosno–Bieszczady road named itself after him in Polish, t

The Old Synagogue of Rymanów (Synagoga w Rymanowie)

ul. Piękna 1 · 4.4 km away
A fortress-synagogue that stood roofless for nearly fifty years, was slated for demolition, and held its first service i

House of Dr Ignacy Bielecki (Dom dr Ignacego Bieleckiego)

ul. Dra Bieleckiego 9 · 4.4 km away
An oil company built it as worker housing, went bankrupt, and sold it to the town doctor — who then practised in Rymanów

Rymanów Market Square (Rynek w Rymanowie)

Rynek · 4.5 km away
A town chartered in 1376 as "Ladisslaulia" that quietly threw away the duke's name and kept its mayor's instead.

Malka's Jewish House (Żydowski dom Malki)

ul. Sanocka 2 · 4.5 km away
One house is all that is left standing of the Jewish town that was nearly half of Rymanów.

Parish Church of St Lawrence (Kościół św. Wawrzyńca)

ul. Wola 5 · 4.6 km away
Its founder died before it was finished, and he is still inside it, in a sarcophagus under the floor.

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