St Philip and St James Church in Sękowa

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St Philip and St James Church in Sękowa is a historic wooden Roman Catholic church in southern Poland, renowned for its traditional timber architecture and inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser Poland.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Roman Catholic church
World Heritage Site component
historic building
wooden church
architecturalType wooden church architecture
buildingStructure timber-framed structure
continent Europe
country Poland
culturalSignificance example of traditional wooden sacral architecture in Poland
denomination Roman Catholic Church
heritageCriteria UNESCO cultural criteria (iii)
UNESCO cultural criteria (iv)
heritageDesignation UNESCO World Heritage Site
heritageRegion Southern Lesser Poland
heritageStatus protected historic monument
locatedIn Sękowa
locatedInRegion southern Poland
locatedInVoivodeship Lesser Poland Voivodeship NERFINISHED
material wood
namedAfter Saint James the Less
Saint Philip the Apostle
notableFor traditional timber architecture
partOf Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser Poland
region Lesser Poland NERFINISHED
religiousAffiliation Catholicism
religiousFunction parish church
roofMaterial wooden shingles
UNESCOListing Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser Poland
use religious services
tourist attraction

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser Poland
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