In the course of centuries, valuable construction landmarks that belong to the treasury of world culture have appeared in our territory. Their important component are wooden cult constructions that are thanks to their originality, technical and artistic designs and social importance included into national cultural monuments. Most of wooden churches have preserved in the northeastern part of Slovakia. Thanks to their architectonic and artistic and historic qualities they were classified into landmark fund and declared national cultural landmarks in 1968.

From the total number of 27 churches declared as national cultural landmarks in the Slovak Republic, 11 wooden churches of eastern rite, mostly from the 17th and 18th century, which are still used for regular religious ceremonies, are located in the Svidnik district.

Wooden churches in the region are characterized by rich artistic decoration. In many churches there are various decorative domes, conical and pyramidal terminations of roots. In the towers there are baroque pashes terminated by metal-tipped crosses that are outstanding artistic expression of village blacksmiths. They are characterized by variety of forms and very rich ornament.

Old wooden churches with their rich interior decoration are jewels of folk culture of world importance. Interiors that were originally ornamented by wall paintings with themes stemming from the gospels are unique. Painters presented the people with contents of the Old and New Testaments through simple expressive means.

The most expressive and inevitable component of wooden churches is the wall with icons that is creative and functional core of the sacral object. Rigid ordering of icons, their predetermined number and composition of topics is characteristic. In the artistic synthesis it combines architecture, fine arts and decorative woodcarving.