{"id":32682,"date":"2026-10-07T22:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/?post_type=kno_miesto&#038;p=32682"},"modified":"2026-10-07T22:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:25:55","slug":"dreveny-kostol-sv-jana-krstitela-orawka-polsko","status":"publish","type":"kno_miesto","link":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/miesto\/dreveny-kostol-sv-jana-krstitela-orawka-polsko\/","title":{"rendered":"Wooden Church of St. John the Baptist \u2013 Orawka (Poland)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orawka was part of the Hungarian Orava Chair. Its parish was founded around 1650 and became the center of Catholic Upper Orava. The log larch church of St. John the Baptist, built in the 1650s, also dates back to those times. Today it is one of the most valuable monuments on the Lesser Poland Wooden Architecture Route.<\/p>\n<h2>What will you see?<\/h2>\n<p>The greatest treasure is the painted interior decoration from the early 18th century. It depicts scenes from the life of the patron, Hungarian kings and saints, the coats of arms of the Orava \u0160oltys and the Ten Commandments on the choir parapet. The chapel of the Seven Sorrows Virgin Mary from 1728 is attached to the nave. The church is also known for its four painted Lenten curtains - the oldest is from 1676.<\/p>\n<h2>Good to know<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>From Slovak Orava through the Trsten\u00e1 \u2013 Chy\u017cne pass to Jab\u0142onka. Orawka lies a few kilometers east of it.<\/li>\n<li>Allow about 30-45 minutes to explore the interior.<\/li>\n<li>The trip can be combined with the church in Podwilk and the open-air museum in Zubrzyca G\u00f3rna.<\/li>\n<li>Lenten curtains hang in the church only shortly before Easter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Orawka_ko%C5%9Bci%C3%B3%C5%82_BG2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerzy Opio\u0142a<\/a> (CC BY-SA 3.0), <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Orawka_ko%C5%9Bci%C3%B3%C5%82_%C5%9Bw._Jana_Chrzciciela,_1650.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacek Daczynski<\/a> (CC BY 3.0), <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Orawka_Ko%C5%9Bci%C3%B3%C5%82_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mimikla at Polish Wikipedia<\/a> (CC BY-SA 3.0), <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Orawka,_Ko%C5%9Bci%C3%B3%C5%82_%C5%9Bw._Jana_Chrzciciela_w_Orawce_-_zas%C5%82ony_wielkopostne._88.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacek Daczynski<\/a> (CC BY-SA 4.0) \u2013 Wikimedia Commons<\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A log church from the mid-17th century with rich polychrome paintings of Hungarian saints and rare Lenten curtains.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":32678,"menu_order":0,"template":"","kno_vidiet_typ":[114],"kno_vidiet_obec":[151],"kno_vidiet_vlast":[125],"class_list":["post-32682","kno_miesto","type-kno_miesto","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kno_vidiet_typ-drevene-kostoliky","kno_vidiet_obec-orawka","kno_vidiet_vlast-sprievodca-prehliadka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kno_miesto\/32682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kno_miesto"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kno_miesto"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kno_miesto\/32682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32683,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kno_miesto\/32682\/revisions\/32683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kno_vidiet_typ","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kno_vidiet_typ?post=32682"},{"taxonomy":"kno_vidiet_obec","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kno_vidiet_obec?post=32682"},{"taxonomy":"kno_vidiet_vlast","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamnaorave.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kno_vidiet_vlast?post=32682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}