Tserkva of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Baligród
The brick church of the Polish Army
Tserkva of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Baligród
Oriented to the east, the temple was founded in 1829 on the site of an older building with a wooden structure. When, after World War II, temple items from other Bieszczady Orthodox churches liquidated as part of Operation Vistula were deposited there, the village was robbed by the forces of the Internal Security Corps. Reconstruction did not begin until the 21st century, when it became the seat of the Greek Catholic Field Ordinariate of the Polish Army. Although its furnishings have been destroyed or looted, it remains a beautiful example of Greek Catholic church architecture with a semicircular chancel, octagonal dome and screen belfry.