8 Kolobrzeska, Bydgoszcz, Poland
The Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Binarowa is one of the oldest and most valuable monuments of wooden religious architecture in Poland. The temple was erected around 1500 of fir tree with a log structure, the construction of which was made of halves of larch logs. It is located on the wooden architecture route of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship and is considered to be one of the most valuable wooden late Gothic churches in Poland and Europe. On July 5, 2003, it was entered, along with other wooden churches in southern Małopolska, on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The interior of the church is a gallery of decorative art: on the ceilings there are valuable paintings from the beginning of the 16th century, on the walls there are baroque biblical cycles, and in the chapel there is a unique polychrome from 1655. The most valuable elements of the church equipment are the Gothic sculptures from the end of the 14th century: the Virgin Mary with the Child, as well as the reliefs of St. Margaret, Dorothy, Catherine and Barbara, located in the side altars. The church also has an organ from the 19th century, probably built by Stanisław Janik from Krosno.
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