Construction wood
Q: What are the East Slovak wooden churches made of?
Most of those churches belong either to the Greek Catholic Church – often called Byzantine in the U.S. – or to the Eastern Orthodox Church. They date back to the 17th-18th centuries, one is about 500 years old. Out of about 40 such churches in North-East Slovakia, four are on UNESCO's World Heritage List – Bodružal, Hervartov, Ladomirová, and Ruská Bystrá (along with one Roman Catholic and three Lutheran wooden churches elsewhere).
The wooden churches were usually built of needle trees: most often of larch, whose sap content makes it particularly durable, less so of fir, spruce, or yew (e.g., the oldest of the wooden churches in Hervartov); occasionally of deciduous trees – oak, hornbeam, birch, poplar.
Their bell towers were sometimes built separately, but within the fence around the church.