Chotyniec

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Chotyniec is a village in the Jaroslaw County of the Subcarpathian Voivodship in southern Poland. It's a village on the Route of Wooden Architecture.

Before the Second World War, the population of Chotyniec was mainly Ukrainian. After Operation Wisla in 1947, only 740 inhabitants were left. After 1956, a number of Ukrainian families started to return.

[edit] Cerkiew (Wooden Church) of the Holy Mother of God

This Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, probably founded in 1617, is one of the few still active Greek Catholic churches in Poland that survived both WWII and the deportations afterwards. The church has been renovated a number of times, a.o. in 1733 and 1858, and was closed from 1925 until 1947. It then became a Roman Catholic church until somewhere in the 1980s, when it was abandoned. After the fall of Poland's communist regime it became a Ukrainian Greek Catholic church again. It was extensively restored between 1991 and 1994, mostly (paid for by) local parishers.

The building is of a distinguishing originality because of it's harmonious, solid appaerance. Inside, a complete iconostasis can be seen, and a baroque painting of the last judgment from 1735.