The wooden church in Swiecany dedicated to St. Anne was probably erected in 1520. It is one of the most valuable wooden buildings inscribed in the registry of theThe temple is located on the European Route of Wooden Architecture of Lesser Poland and Subcarpathian Voivodeships. The original church has not survived. It should be presumed that it already existed in the second half of the 14th century. Source news has not survived, indirect evidence is two sculptures of Madonnas with the Child dated to about 1380 and a wooden sculpture of a bishop from about 1420. Based on the oral accounts of local residents, it was supposed to stand about 500 meters south of the present temple. The present church is situated on a hill at the foot of which flows the Olszynka River. Next to the temple grow three centuries-old oak trees. The monument was built of wood, planked, with a multi-pitched roof covered with sheet metal, and has a signal tower with a lantern, domed, covered with sheet metal with a cross on top. The second tower, which is part of the former belfry, is built of a wooden structure in the shape of a polygonal cone, boarded, covered with shingles, topped with a domed cupola topped with a cross. A vestry and chapel are located on the north side, while the porch (former bell tower) was added on the west side. At the main entrance from the porch to the church is an oak portal with a slight ogival cut in the lintel, similarly at the entrance to the sacristy. The other portals have no ornamentation. The original polychrome was irretrievably destroyed in 1873 during the repainting of the church. The nave walls of the chancel and chapel were painted sapphire color. There are painted scenes in the temple, including the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, in which the various social classes of the Saints in regional costumes are depicted. Painted there is an insurgent on crutches from 1863, villagers, a priest and residents of the manor, as well as a scene with St. Isidore the "ploughman" praying. There are three altars in the church and one in the chapel. A Baroque-style wooden pulpit from around 1740, a baptismal font made after 1792 of black marble, and two oil-painted confessionals from the 19th century have been preserved. The old priceless organ was donated in 1965 to the Folk Building Museum in Sanok and installed in the historic church, which originated in Bączal. Today, the church's movable furnishings are a remnant of the objects of worship that were not looted by the Austrians in 1785 and 1810. Historical sources say that the confiscation deprived the parish of, among other things, a gilded monstrance made of silver, three gilded chalices, as well as the following made of silver: a cross, a vessel for the sick, a pacifier, ampullae with a tray, a tribulum with utensils, five crowns, six votive offerings, two silver crosses and two strings of pearls. Of the valuable sculptures preserved in the temple, many have gone to museums. Today, in the temple you can admire, among other things, a passion flower that is considered the most valuable of those preserved in the village church. It was created around 1520. Due to the long history of the village, not only the temple is among the valuable buildings. Noteworthy wooden buildings of the organist's house and parson's kitchen have been preserved in Swiecany. Due to their technical condition, the buildings of the old rectory, the hospital for the poor and the vicarage were demolished in the second half of the 20th century.
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