Wooden Church in Mnichów #1
by Adam Czapla
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The historic church of St. Szczepan, the Deacon.
It is the oldest wooden church in the Świetokrzyskie province, one of the most valuable monuments of wooden architecture of Poland and only the one wooden church in Europe with a rococo interior.
The church is built of larch wood, and elements of its interior are made of linden wood.
The date of construction is not well known, nevertheless various researches place this date from 1730 to 1770.
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