St. Michael Archangel's Church, Binarowa
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St. Michael Archangel's Church is a Roman Catholic Gothic-wooden church located in the village of Binarowa, southeast Poland, dating from the 15th or early 16th century. Together with different churches is designated as part of the UNESCO Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser Poland.[1]
St. Michael Archangel's Church in Binarowa | |
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Kościół św. Michała Archanioła w Binarowej | |
Religion | |
Affiliation | Roman Catholicism |
Status | active church |
Location | |
Location | Binarowa, Poland |
Architecture | |
Type | Gothic |
Completed | c. 1500 |
Official name: Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser Poland | |
Type | Cultural |
Criteria | iii, iv |
Designated | 2003 (27th session) |
Reference no. | 1053 |
State Party | Poland |
Region | Europe |
A document from 1415 informs of the existence of a wooden parish church in Binarowa, which is acknowledge by Jan Długosz on the turning point of the third and fourth quarter of the fifteenth century. The present church was built around 1500. The date of the church's consecration remains unknown. In the next centuries a number of renovation works took place, to keep the church in its best state:
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