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"The wooden churches of southern Little Poland represent outstanding examples of the different aspects of medieval church-building traditions in Roman Catholic culture. Built using the horizontal log technique, common in eastern and northern Europe since the Middle Ages..." Some of these churches are Orthodox . The wooden church style of the region originated in the late Medieval , the late Sixteenth Century , and began with Gothic ornament and Polychrome detail, but because they were timber construction, the structure, general form, and feeling is entirely different from the gothic architecture or Polish Gothic (in stone or brick). Later construction show Roccoco and Baroque ornamental influence. The form of these churches is deeply influenced by the Greco-Catholic and Orthodox presence in the region. Some display Greek Cross plans and Onion Dome s, but the most interesting of the churches combine these features with the Roman forms with elongated Nave s and Steeple s. Collections of wooden churches of the region are in the ''Skansen'' Open Air Museum s in Sanok and Nowy Sącz . EXTERNAL LINKS
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