Forgotten churches: How Ukrainian abandoned churches look like in Poland

The editor of the Polish weekly newspaper Piotr Durak takes pictures of the churches, which survived in eastern Poland after the forced eviction of Ukrainians.

One of his albums on Facebook is entitled Zapomniane cerkwie (“Forgotten Churches”).

“The selection aims to ensure photographic documentation of abandoned and ruined Greek Catholic Churches.  So far, we have collected more than 50 churches, which probably no one remembers. After the events of 1947 called “Vistula,” the Ukrainian churches became unfit. Some of them were lucky enough to be rearranged as Roman Catholic churches and served for some time until they replaced the church was built.

Others remain as they were left dozens of years ago. For several years they served as warehouses, folk houses, chicken coops, sheds or public toilets ...” the description of the album explains. This was reported by ZIK.