Trinity Church, Mykulychyn

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The village of Mykulychyn is known to many vacationers and tourists as a Carpathian resort. It is one of the largest villages in Ukraine. It is home to the Trinity Church. It is the main decoration and source of pride for the villagers. The church is made entirely of wood in the Hutsul style. The temple is remarkable for its power. This is a rather large religious building. The gray building is decorated with golden tops, solemnly shining in the sun. The austere facade of the church has large rectangular windows with white bars. After the repair work, the church looks like a stone church, only the first tier clearly demonstrates the wooden base.

The first written mention of the local church dates back to 1700. The old wooden church was located in the cemetery above the village of Falchi. In the 1760s, it was destroyed by a strong storm. The construction of the existing wooden Trinity Church (started in 1866) was completed in 1868. The church was designed by the Tsarist-royal engineer and architect of the Nadvirna district government, J. Tchaikovetskyi. In the summer of 1911, a devastating flood caused considerable damage to the village. Therefore, in this and the following years, the church was repaired: the roof was covered with tin and the bell tower with shingles. During World War II, the Nazis took four silver bells from the church. The largest of them weighed 5 tons. Its ringing could be heard within a radius of 12 km. In the old days, the crosses on the church's dome were made of wood. The modern metal crosses and grilles to the church windows were installed in 1929. After the Second World War, the church was operational. Today, the church has 5 bells, the largest of which weighs 6 tons. In 2002, a new bell tower was built on the church gate. The church is an architectural monument of national importance. It is used by the UGCC community.

Nowadays, Greek Catholics historically predominate among the villagers. After a period of persecution of the church during the Soviet era, Greek Catholicism in the village was restored in December 1987. It was initiated by the village's parish priest, Fr. He told the laity in the church that they had the right to decide whether to remain subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate or to return to the faith of their fathers, the UGCC. To do so, each of them had to sign one of the three lists of these denominations. More than a thousand signatures were on the UGCC list and none on the lists of other denominations.

Since 1927, when the main building of the Congregation of the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Virgin Mary was built in Mykulychyn by the Stanislav Eparchy on the initiative of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, the nuns have been providing Christian care in the village. They provided free religious preschool education for children under 8 years of age.

In 2010, a gate decorated with decorative stone and wrought iron bars was installed near the church.