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Two wooden churches are preserved in Dibrova. The lower church was erected in 1604 (another data tell 1561) and reconstructed in the first half of the18th century. Church has wonderful proportions — it proudly crowns the top of the hill flying high with its spire. The structure consists of two oak chambers of which the altar part with small arch window is the oldest part. Log sections are covered with common gable roof. The church stood unattended for a long time and then was converted into the folk life museum. Since 1994 it is in function again.

The church of Kolodne belongs to the most ancient monuments of the Ukrainian sacral architecture. It was constructed in the locality called Odariv and later was tranferred to the present site. The church has some features characteristic for defensive structures. Log constructions which are the oldest parts were made of oak logs 12 m long in the 15th century. Other parts of the church were constructed in 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Window in the form of the cross on the eastern wall, small round and square windows on other walls, portal with the door are very archaic elements.According to the inscription on the ceiling, the author of the baroque painting in the interior in the 18th century was Antoni Vali.

The Horiany Rotunda is one of the most ancient and most valuable architectural antiquities of Ukraine. The structure consists of two parts. The most ancient is Rotunda itself — a typical Romanesque building of a wellrounded hexahedron with its brickwork walls 2 to 2.5 metres wide, covered with the helmet-like dome which lies on a drum decorated with Romanesque motif under the cornice. Majority of the investigators consider Rotunda to date from the end of the 10th century or from the beginning of the 11th. In the 14th century a late Gothic nave was attached to Rotunda. Wonderful are the murals that cover the entire inner surface of Rotunda and the eastern wall of the nave. Murals were probably painted by north italian masters.

One of the best wooden churches is situated in Uzhhorod open-air museum. This Lemko church is special for its brilliant proportions, slanderness, masterly worked architectural details. High baroque tower is full of grace. Cupolas crown the tent roofs of the nave and the altar part. General rhythm of forms is quite dynamic. The hight of the western section together with the tower makes 22 m. 1777 is considered to be the year of construction. When a new masonry church was built in Shelestovo the wooden church was transferred to Muckachevo in 1928. In 1974 the church was taken to Uzhhorod. It is the only classic Lemko church left in Transcarpathia.