Chrám Prenesenia ostatkov sv. Mikuláša
Slovakia
The church sits on a rise above the village of Ruská Bystrá, in the Sobrance district of eastern Slovakia, with the Vihorlat hills closing in around it. It was built in 1730, during the reign of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, as a Greek Catholic church of the Byzantine rite, dedicated to St Nicholas. The name refers to the translation of his relics. What strikes you first is how bare it looks. Unlike the wooden churches of the Svidník district, its log walls are not cladded in boards or shingle. You are looking straight at the hand-hewn conifer beams themselves, notched and jointed at the corners.
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