St. George's Church

In 1921, in the village of Dulibs in the Stryi region, at the expense of the local community, built a large wooden five-domed church of St. George, whose artistic ensemble, with its organic synthesis of ancient traditions of decorative art and new spatial planning solutions of architecture, is one of the best examples of creative cooperation between a professional architect and a folk builder. The church preserves unique for Lviv region works of the master Vasyl Turchyniak, who consistently preserved the traditions of Hutsul flat-carving on wood, was one of the few who used carved decor in the design of the facades of sacred buildings, enriched the shaping and decoration of church interior equipment. The history of the construction of St. George's Church allows us to trace the process of mythologizing the personalities of folk artists in folklore, endowing them with supernatural skills and abilities of divination.