The Church of St. Procop and St. Barbora

The non-traditional and, compared to other wooden churches in Pobeskydí, quite exotic Church of St. Procop and St. Barbora is situated approximately 1 km from the railway station on the line from Kunčice pod Ondřejníkem to Čeladná.
Its unique architecture is closely tied up with its origin. As some other churches (e.g. a small wooden church in Blansko), it comes from Transcarpathian Ukraine and it was transported to us in the period of the First Republic. Until the end of the 1920s the current Kunčice church used to be located in Hliňance and it was dedicated to St. Archangel Michael. In that year it was bought at quite a decrepit condition by Ing. Šebela, a director of the Mining and Metallurgical Company in Ostrava who had it transported to his summer residence in Velké Kunčice, as Kunčice pod Ondřejníkem were named then. The originally orthodox church from the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries was repaired to the present appearance and re-consecrated in 1931. The first ceremonial mass was held at the wedding of Šebela´s daughter with Count Larisch-Monich there. The stormy history continued in the 1980s and 1990s. Wooden floor beams which were not put on a sleeper wall gradually decayed until the building was in an emergency state due to the damage to statics. Thanks to the devotion of local craftsmen, the church was repaired again and this time also sufficiently insulated and underpinned. In the first half of the 1990s the church was robbed (as e.g. the church at Prašivá). A historically valuable painting of the church patrons from the end of the previous century and a cross with the scene of crucified Christ were stolen, among others. On the main altar there is a painting of St. Procop and St. Barbora the church is dedicated to. There is a heavily engraved iconostas with three entrances with a "tsarist gate" in the middle. Three staggered towers dominated over the church. The circumference of the main aisle is lined with engraved columns.