Section 3 of 6
Still Standing
The wooden churches of Małopolska and the tserkvas of the Carpathians — what the UNESCO listings cover, what Podlaskie is not on.
4 pieces in this section
Still StandingSix Churches, One Inscription, and a Technique That Predates the PaperworkA UNESCO listing made in 2003 brought official recognition to six timber buildings in southern Poland — but the log-joinery tradition they embody had already been building synagogues, tserkvas, and farmsteads across the region for centuries before any authority thought to name it.Read the piece ⟶
Still StandingSixteen Tserkvas, Eight of Them on This Side of the BorderA joint Polish–Ukrainian inscription made in 2013 fixed sixteen timber Orthodox churches on the UNESCO World Heritage List — and set out what, precisely, their shared building tradition consists of.Read the piece ⟶
Still StandingThe Region Around Zabłudów Is Unlisted and Mostly UnprotectedPodlaskie's timber vernacular falls between the UNESCO inscriptions and faces the same slow pressures that ended the synagogue.Read the piece ⟶
Still StandingTykocin: A Baroque Synagogue That Is Still ThereA masonry building in the same region as Zabłudów — one that survived the war and stands available for direct inspection today.Read the piece ⟶
Zabłudów, markedPodlaskie, bracketedPlaces named across the siteGeometry: shipped map kit