8 Kolobrzeska, Bydgoszcz, Poland
St. Paraskevi Church in Kwiatoń is a Gothic, wooden church located in the village of Kwiatoń from the nineteenth-century. It is one of the best preserved Lemko churches in Poland. In 2013, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List along with other wooden churches in Poland and Ukraine. It is located on the wooden architecture route of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. The church was built in the second half of the 17th century. It has been renovated many times. It is a log structure, oriented, three-part. It was erected on a plan composed of three squares: a spacious chancel, nave and women's gallery. The interior is decorated with a polychrome with figural and ornamental motifs from 1811. Complete equipment has been preserved here: the iconostasis (wall with icons) by M. Bogdański from 1904, the main altar from the 19th century in the presbytery, two side altars with icons of the Mother of God with the Child and Pictures from the Cross. On the sides of the dome above the nave there are angels, and above it the scene of the Transfiguration of the Lord and the depictions of the evangelists. There is a painting of the Protection of the Mother of God on the ceiling of the women's gallery. On the walls, next to the iconostasis, there are paintings depicting St. Olga and St. Włodzimierz. The western part of the nave and the walls of the women's gallery is surrounded by a music choir with an atypical, arcaded balustrade with several processional banners. The remaining banners and the 19th-century processional cross painted on both sides are to be found in the women's gallery. The temple is surrounded by a log fence with two wooden gates of a frame structure, topped with shingled roofs with onion-shaped pumpkins. The gates thus refer to the style of the church roof. Currently, the tserkva is used as a Roman Catholic church, belonging to the Uście Gorlickie parish.
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