Multicultural Tylicz

In Tylicz, a village which used to be a town located by a trade route, hence, a significant one, we can see two beautiful, wooden sites . An older church and a bit younger Orthodox church. The parish Church of Saints Peter and Paul was funded by Bishop Piotr Tylicki in 1612 when Tylicz was founded for the second time. It is a one-nave log construction (with the presbytery which is a bit higher). Inside there are three rococo altars from the 18th century and the painting of Mother of God from Tylicz (with the Infant) which dates back to the turn of the 16th and 17th century.

On the outskirts of Tylicz, on a small hill, there is the Orthodox Church of Saints Cosma and Damian erected 130 years later. Wallachian shepherds came to Tylicz in the 16th century and in the 18th century they constituted such a numerous group that they decided to build their own temple. The church has the west Lemko construction with log walls. Kriłosy constitute an interesting element of the construction – they are two, small rooms alongside the nave dedicated to singers. We will not find them anywhere else in the area of Lemko Land. The polychromy dates back to 1938 and it relates to the 950th anniversary of the Christianisation of Kiev Rus.

The parish Church of Saints Peter and Paul

The Orthodox Church of Saints

Cosma and Damian