The western group of sacred buildings of Byzanine liturgy situated in Carpathian Arch is represented by the Eastern Slovak wooden churches. These are mostly situated approximately 300 km far from the northern part – Marmarosh crossing the west Ukraine and south-east part of Poland towards the north-east of Slovakia.
More than 30 of the above mentioned churches have been preserved in Slovakia and most of them were built in 18th century. With only some exception, like the church in Trochany (built earlier, 16th century), there is no doubt that on the whole all of them appeared even after signing the so-called Uzhorod Union in 1646 which joined Orthodox clergy and north-eastern Hungary /comprising of Slovakia and Carpathian Rus/ believers with the Roman-Catholic church. All liturgic and church-law specifics were preserved. Such a churých was called a Union church, later Greek-Catholic one and was supported by Habsburgh power. This fact led to population increase and at the same time towards the tendency to build new churches even in villages. Wood was the commonly used building material for these churches. Local carpenters could be proud of their master work. However close the contact with the Roman-Catholic surroundings was (e.g. wooden church of gothic character in Hervartov), especially in the vicinity of Bardejov, main features of sacred buildings following the Byzantive and consequently Kyjev-Russian examples were preserved…