One of the most beautiful and oldest wooden churches in Poland. Dendrological research has shown that the church of Uluck was built in 1659, which makes it the third oldest wooden church in Poland.
Orthodox church Wniebowścienia Pańskiego in Ulucz is situated on the hill Dębnik on the San river. One of the most beautiful and oldest wooden churches in Poland. Dendrological research has shown that the church of Uluck was built in 1659, which makes it the third oldest wooden church in Poland.
It is an oriented temple, built of fir wood, carcass construction, on a foundation of broken stone. Three-sectioned: presbytery closed on three sides, a square nave and an elongated, rectangular women's gallery. The walls of the presbytery are shingled. Over the presbytery there is a ridge roof, multi-slope, with slopes partially extended above the pastophoria. Above the nave, there is an octagonal dome on a tambour, with a pseudo-lantern. Above the women's section there is a ridge roof, multi-slope, including arcades. Roofs and dome covered with shingles, topped with iron crosses mounted on ceramic spheres. Two of them, above the presbytery and women's gallery, were made in 1964 by a potter from Mrzygłód, Tadeusz Sokołowski.
Inside the church in Uluck, you can admire the 17th-century polychromes depicting scenes of the Passion made by Stefan Dżengałowicz. The most valuable, movable element of the church equipment, the iconostasis made in 1682 by Dżengałowicz and Michał Liszecki, is now in the Museum of Folk Architecture in Sanok.
There are several tombstones in the immediate vicinity of the temple. The most famous is the memorial plate dedicated to Father Michał Werbycki, who became famous as the author of the text for the national anthem of Ukraine.
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