Saint Paraskeva church in Krywe, Greek Catholic church in Krywe, Poland
The Saint Paraskeva church in Krywe is a stone Greek Catholic church built in 1842 on Diłok hill. It is an oriented, two-part building with a semicircular apse and a wider rectangular nave. The roof is gone, but most of the walls remain.
The church was built in 1842 and initially served the local Greek Catholic community in the area. It closed in 1947 as the population composition of the region shifted after World War II.
The church is dedicated to Saint Paraskeva, a martyr venerated in the Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic traditions. After the village was emptied in 1947, the building stood abandoned; on 3 August 2011 Antonina and Stanisław Majsterek, the only remaining residents of Krywe, were married in its ruins. Two icons from Krywe, the Dormition of the Virgin (17th/18th century) and Saint George (18th century), are kept in the Historical Museum in Sanok.
The roofless ruin stands on Diłok hill; the surviving walls and the roofless two-bell frame of the second half of the 19th century are reached on foot, and the ground around the old cemetery to the north is uneven. The site is unfenced and unlit, so visit in daylight and wear footwear suited to rough terrain.
On 3 August 2011, the ruined church hosted the wedding of Antonina and Stanisław Majsterek, described as the only remaining inhabitants of Krywe. The Greek Catholic parish church, built of stone in 1842, lost its roof after the village was emptied and destroyed following 1947.
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