Poienile Izeu: Biserica de Iemn "Cuvioasa Paraschiva“ (1632)

            Also known as the Wooden Church from Poienile Glodului, the church of the "Holy Paraskeva" is located in the Historical region of Maramures and was built in 1632 by the village inhabitants. It was super elevated in the first half of the 18th century. In 1785 the altar was painted by Radu Munteanu, while the rest of the church was decorated in 1794 by a local painter. In the first half of the 19th century the porch was added, and at the end of the same century, the rectangular 'windows' between the naos and the narthex were created.
The church has a rectangular plan with a porch to the west and an altar with a recessed rectangular apse. The interior is lightened by two windows levels. The church featured a double-canopy and a bell tower erected above the narthex, harboring a bell-room with open gallery and arcades resting on pillars, all covered by a high-pitched pyramid-shaped roof.
Mural painting is characterized by the likeness of decorative and eclecticism. The painter combines, in a popular interpretation, traditional elements characteristic from Poienile Izei area, that can be found in the iconographic discourse and in the scenography of the images, with the Western, modern vision for that time, of the representation of the figures. 
It is also worth noting the icons of the 17th and 18th centuries.
The wooden church of Poienile Izei, one of the oldest wood churches in this area, is also one of the most beautiful better-preserved churches of Maramures. It illustrates the evolution in time of the model of the Maramures’s churches. The plan with the rectangular apse is typical of the 17th century, and the super elevated walls as well as the double-eaved roof are common in the eighteenth century.

   

Taken in: Romania / Maramureş / Poienile Izei (show map)

Taken on: September 4, 2018

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