Holy Trinity Church, Zhovkva

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Holy Trinity Church, Zhovkva
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List

Type	Cultural
Criteria	III, IV
Reference	1424
UNESCO region	Europe
Inscription history
Inscription	2013 (37th Session)

Wooden Holy Trinity Church was built in suburb of Zhovkva, Ukraine in 1720 on the place of a church that burned down in 1717. The structure consisits of three wooden naves and a brick sacristy.

There is an iconostasis consisting of about 50 icons painted by the masters of Zhovkva Painting and Carving School of Ivan Rutkovych in the beginning of 18th century. The iconostasis is made from linden wood carved by Ignatiy Stobenskyj. In 1978-79 iconostasis was restored. Now the church belongs to the UGCC.

On June 21, 2013 on the 37th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Cambodja the Holy Trinity Church was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List among 16 wooden tserkvas of Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine.^[1]^[2]

St. Michael picture
Holy Doors
Iconostasis
Mandylion

References

World Heritage Sites in Ukraine

Kiev Saint-Sophia Cathedral Related Monastic Buildings Kiev Pechersk Lavra Lviv Ensemble of the Historic Centre Chernivtsi Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans Struve Geodetic Arc (with nine other countries) Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians (with Slovakia) Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora Wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine

Coordinates: 50°03′19″N 23°58′56″E / 50.0553°N 23.9821°E / 50.0553; 23.9821

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