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Wooden churches have been featured in the past on the tamps of various countries (Poland, Czechoslovakia) but this recent Slovak set is, in my opinion, the most beautiful: http://www.pofis.sk/index.php?id=2439&prod=3143
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John,
I hope they label them as works of Rusyn church architecture instead of the nondiscriptive "wooden churches of Slovakia".
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Author of stamps designs Hervatov and Dobroslava and working sheet where we can see churches in Hunkovce, Príkra and Ladomírová is artist Karol Felix who is at the same time author of two drawings for the First Day Covers that depict two other churches in Bodružal and Tročany. Author of drawings engravings is a renowned Slovak engraver František Horniak who created several stamps with architectonic motives in cooperation with Karol Felix.
Wooden churches are unique architectonic monuments based on the tradition of wooden, vernacular Carpathian architecture. In Eastern Slovakia there are about 50 mostly Greek Catholic churches in the surroundings of Bardejov and Snina. 27 of them were proclaimed National cultural monuments. The oldest preserved churches in Hervatov and Tročany were built in the Middle Ages at the turn of 15th and 16th century. Other churches are from the New Age, from 17th and 18th century. Local folk carpenters built churches from wooden log-house constructions without a single iron nail because nails reminded them of crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Churches consist of the antechapel, nave and sanctuary with altar, evoking Holy Trinity. All three spaces were finished by towers gradually higher towards the West. Roofs of churches consisted of hand-made wooden shingles. In the past, iconostas and rich wall paintings were found in the interior of churches. Iconostas is light wooden construction separating space for believers from the space for preachers and was decorated by icons. Ceilings of churches were also decorated with paintings.
In July 2008 in Quebec, Canada, eight wooden churches in Slovakia were added to the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage List. Amongst these are the churches in Hervatov, Bodružal and Ladomírová. Ľubica Pavlovičová, Jana Švecová, Martin Vančo Isn't Ladomírová, the village nearby where the Russian monks from Pochaiv settled after the Russian revolution and World War 1 when Pochaiv became Ukrainianized? If the church on the stamp is a heritage church then I am assuming it is the local village church and not the monastery church built by the monks after they settled there.
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That's correct. The Ladomirova Orthodox Monastery has a Great Russian Muscovite style church edifice and has nothing in common with the local Rusyn wooden church style architecture.
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Thanks. I see then even the architecture of their church had nothing to do with local customs: they were trying to impose their Russian traditions on the local population.
Was it all closed down when they left in WW2?
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The two churches featured in the stamps are St. Paraskeva's Greek Catholic Church in Dobroslava (1705) and St. Francis RC Church in Hervartov (1500), believed to be the oldest wooden church in Slovakia.
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Thanks. I see then even the architecture of their church had nothing to do with local customs: they were trying to impose their Russian traditions on the local population.
Was it all closed down when they left in WW2? I'm not sure they were attempting to impose their traditions. I do believe they were invited. According to this, there is talk of reviving Ladomirova. http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/eng2008/9enczechcommunique.html
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The set of stamps are of old churches and the Ladomirová church which is part of the series was built in 1742. The later Orthodox monastery built at the request of local Orthodox people would be much to recent and not being of the same architectural style does not qualify to be part of the series.
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Am I the only person who draws only a dark blue screen (for 2 nights running, now) when I try to view these?
As a philatelist, an Eastern Christian, an aficianado of church architecture generally, and, particularly as one with a special love for wooden churches, my level of frustration is mounting.
Many years,
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ok - this is truly bizarre. I no longer see any images (including avatars, photo gallery, etc) anywhere on this site (neither ByzCath main, the forum, or the ByzCath Directory) - except the "Latest Photo" on the forum main page. This problem arose immediately after I posted the above. No other site is affected. Has got to be a quirky software coincidence.
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"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Dear Neil, Has got to be a quirky software coincidence. It has to be, because when I made a post to respond to you right after you posted, it disappeared upon being 'submitted'. That may have been the same time, all images went blank on you. This forum software can be so impossible to deal with lately!  Alice
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Hmm, I can at least see your avatar, Alice - that's an improvement - but it's the only image I do see. Obviously, you Orthodox have stronger avatars than we Catholics  . Nope - can see Anhelyna's, too - so it must be that women have them  addendum 2 - ok - rebooted and now everything is back - wierd  but I still can't view the stamps  (and won't be trying again to do so, b/c as soon as I did - I lost all images here again 
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"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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The stamps really are very nice - shame you dare not tempt fate again
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I knew you always believed the Melkite church was only for Irish people!
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