Church St. Kosma and Damian in Wojkowa

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CHURCH OF St. KOSMY i DAMIANA in Wojkowa - was built in 1792 in the West Lemko style. It is a wooden, timbered building of a carcass construction. Only the tower is shingled and covered with sheet metal, it is a columnar structure. The whole is covered with a tented roof decorated with three spherical turrets with blind lanterns. The church is three-sectioned, with a single nave, with a square nave and a narrower presbytery. The interior is decorated with figural and ornamental polychrome. A particularly valuable monument is the rococo iconostasis from the 18th century, which has been fully preserved in its original form.
It consists of 4 paintings in the lower part, 13 prazdniks depicting scenes from the life of Christ (on the second floor). The third one consists of 6 icons depicting the figures of the apostles, with the "Deesis" icon towering over them in the middle. The whole is complemented by oval paintings and a richly decorated cross. The new, free-standing altar covers the tsarist gates of the iconostasis. Also noteworthy are the tabernacles from the end of the 18th century in the shape of churches from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the folk painting of Our Lady of Sorrows from the old banner, and the processional scepter with paintings.
The Greek Catholic parish was endowed in 1595 by Cardinal Jerzy Radziwiłł, because the village of Wojkowa, like other villages in this region, was inhabited by Lemkos. After the Lemko people were displaced in the years 1945-47 to the western territories, the church became a Roman Catholic church.