St. Paraskeva Church

The Church of St. Paraskeva in Stara Sola, together with the bell tower, is one of the best sacred ensembles of the ancient Galician type, dating from the seventeenth century, and perhaps even earlier. It is a three-story wooden church with two tops, on a high stone foundation, and covered with shingles. The lower log cabins are covered with a wide canopy on pillars, which around the altar passes into a canopy supported by profiled crowns of the log cabins. The emporium with an arcade-gallery above the narthex adds to the church's uniqueness. The interior has a carved iconostasis, old carved royal doors and some ancient icons. The 17th century icon is particularly noteworthy. "St. Nicholas", a wooden sculpture of a seated Christ. Today the church has been restored, although not everything has been done professionally. In particular, the spaces of the nave and altar have been covered over, the carved iconostasis has been covered with foil and some ancient icons have been recorded, and the tops and roofs have been covered with copper tin.