In the small village of Danylovo, Khust district, Transcarpathian region, with a population of 1800 inhabitants, there is the tallest of all the Gothic wooden churches in Transcarpathia – St Nicholas. Its ploughshare-covered tower is 35 metres high. This unique church was built in 1779, when most of the neighbouring villages already had similar churches, so the craftsmen had something to take an example of harmonious composition from. An inscription on the door of the church reminds us of the date of construction. In 2005, St Nicholas Church was handed over to the Greek Catholic community, which had not held services here since 1920. After a long break, the Greek Catholics held their first service in this church on 3 April 2005, when the whole world said goodbye to Pope John Paul II.
