It is one of the three Bojkos churches that have survived to this day. It was erected in 1731 in the village of Grąziowa near Ustrzyki Dolne. The entire building was built on a stone foundation. The body of the building is characterized by distinctive two-story arcades and tent roofs covered with shingles, which tower over individual rooms. In the spatial layout, the church is distinguished by: a two-level vestibule, a side nave, two entrances in the southern and western walls and a sanctuary. A wide eaves run around the presbytery to keep rainwater as far away from the building as possible.
Inside the church, the main piece of equipment is a five-row iconostasis from the second half of the 18th century. The arrangement of the interior of the temple is completed by icons hanging on the walls of the nave, there are religious paintings, a banner and a processional cross on both sides. When visiting the interior of the temple, it is also worth paying attention to the perfectly preserved wall polychrome from 1735, funded by Grigory Kolosterski, for the forgiveness of his own and wife's sins. This polychrome is considered by some researchers to be a key monument in research on the art of the Byzantine borderland. The paintings made on a thin limestone backbone are of a folk character, but despite all their primitiveness, they amaze with a well-thought-out iconographic arrangement and deep symbolic content.
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