CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN ROHATYN
The museum-monument of wooden architecture and painting of the XVI-XIX centuries, the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit in Rohatyn is one of the oldest wooden churches in Ukraine, built at the turn of the XV-XVI centuries and also known as the "Church of Roksolana". It has been functioning as a museum since 1983. The church is a three-tiered, one-storeyed, log structure built without nails. It belongs to the ancient Galician type of construction. The unique five-tiered Renaissance-Baroque iconostasis of 1650, which is one of the three oldest and most artistically perfect iconostases in Ukraine that have survived to this day, forms an inseparable whole with the wooden church building. In addition, the museum exhibits iconography, sculpture, decorative carvings, and old prints representing the sacred art of Rohatyn region in the 16th to 20th centuries. In 2013, the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit was unanimously inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the Wooden Churches of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine nomination. https://www.karpaty.info/ua/uk/if/fr/rohatyn/museums/church/