St. Nicholas Church, Kozova

Probably, the previous wooden church called St. Nicholas, which burned down, stood on the opposite side of the current one, near the preserved wooden bell tower. The present church of the Exaltation of the Holy Crosswas built by master carpenter Leon Dulfik in 1926 by the main road, on a gentle slope.

He used the design of the wooden church in Liutovyske by architect Vasyl Nahirnyi. Until 1939, the patrons of the church in Kozova were the Gradley brothers from Skole. In the late 2000s, the roofs of the building were re-roofed.

The location of the church is known to anyone who has traveled along the Kyiv-Chop highway to Zakarpattia. After the last renovation, some tourists stop on a sunny day to capture the shiny multi-story building (I saw it with my own eyes).

The church is cruciform in design, five-story. There are vestries attached to the faceted altar on both sides. The narthex has a narrower porch to the west, above which there are apparently choir rooms. Side entrances to the church are located in the western walls of the north and south wings of the nave.

The profiled crowns of the log cabins, on which a wide canopy rests, are striking. The walls beneath it consist of open log beams, and above the roof they are vertically planked with platbands with platbands. The wide cornices are highlighted in blue.

As many as 34 windows of the church are painted in the same color. It is crowned with five large octagons (the largest is above the nave) covered with onion-shaped domes and crowned with lanterns with tops. To the west of the church is a small wooden chapel that has been renovated.

But the wooden three-tiered square bell tower, the third tier of which is eight-sided and covered with a hipped roof with a lantern and a top, is surprisingly located far to the north of the church, near the old tombstones. This location is a rare occurrence in the Lviv region.