Orthodox church of the Protection of the Mother of God in Komancza

The Orthodox parish church in Komańcza belongs to the Sanok deanery of the Przemyśl-Gorlice diocese of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church. It is a reconstruction of the previous church that burned down in 2006.

The church, preserved until 2006, was built in the years 1800–1803 on the site of the previous church burned down in 1800, as a Greek Catholic parish church. In 1834, an iconostasis made by a woodcarver and painter Aftanazy Rużyłowicz, transferred from the village of Wołosianka in Transcarpathia, was set up.

In 1834, the gate bell tower was built, and in 1836, the sacristy was also added. A special feature was the location of the sacristy on the extension of the sanctuary, on the longitudinal axis of the church. The temple has been renovated many times.

After the war, despite the displacement of a significant number of inhabitants (Lemkos), it served the remaining Greek Catholics in the village. Uninterrupted Greek Catholic services were held, a phenomenon that was then unheard of on a national scale.

In the years 1965–1970, the church was thoroughly renovated. Wall defects were patched and foundations renovated. In the years 1983–1985 restoration works were carried out on the iconostasis and the polychrome. Subsequent renovation and protection works were carried out in the period 1993–1995.

On September 13, 2006, the church and its furnishings burned down, the firefighters only managed to save the historic belfry. On September 14, 2006 (the day after the fire), the Orthodox Archbishop of Przemyśl and Nowy Sącz, Adam (Dubec) announced its reconstruction in the shape from before the fire, and on October 14, 2008, in the new church, he celebrated the liturgy (unfinished church without windows and floors, without iconostasis and polychrome).

The temple was included in the Wooden Architecture Trail of the Subcarpathian region