Greek Catholic church dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. The church is located in the center of the village at the crossroads, vis a vis the parish cemetery, and is used bothby Greek Catholics as well as Roman Catholics (soon Roman Catholics will move to a newly built brick church on the opposite side of the road). The wooden church, built in 1810 with money from the then owner of the village of Losie, Count Stanislaw Siemieński of Biecz. Over the next years it was expanded and in 1928 it was significantly enlarged (the nave was enlarged, a vestry was added and the whole thing was plastered). In the 1950s it was plastered again, but fortunately in the 1980s the plaster was stripped and it was returned to its original appearance, i.e. covered with shingles. After 1947 it was used by the Roman Catholic Church. Since 1968 it has also served Greek Catholics when services in the Greek Catholic rite began to be held with increasing frequency. In the 1990s it became the property of the Greek Catholic parish, but is used by believers of both rites. It is a typical oriented Orthodox church, tripartite (very wide nave, chancel with vestry and babiniec). The tower is attached with a pillar and frame construction with sloping walls (the pillars cover the babiniec). Surrounding the church is a conservatory. Above the nave and presbytery there are tent domes, broken topped with banyas, and the helmet of the tower is spherical with an apparent lantern. Inside the church preserved a beautiful, rich polychrome painting from 1935 made by Mikolaj Galanka. Attention is drawn to the complete iconostasis, which was probably created at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the nave are two richly decorated Baroque side altars. The church is surrounded by a stone wall, covered with shingles, in which is placed a brick gate-bell tower topped with three domes. (dated 1876).
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