A historic wooden parish church in Zrębice from 1789, with a post bell tower from the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, on the wooden architecture trail.
The Church of St Giles in Zrębice, in Częstochowa County, is a wooden church from 1789. It lies on the wooden architecture trail of the Silesian Voivodeship, and next to it stand a post bell tower and a group of six lime trees that are a natural monument.
The parish in the village was established in the 14th century on the lands of the Olsztyn Castle estate. The present church was built in 1789 through the efforts of the parish priest Wojciech Buliński, on the site of the previous church or using parts of it. The building was entered in the heritage register in April 1933. Conservation work was carried out here in 1966-1968, the bell tower was renovated in 2008, and in 2014-2015 all the walls were conserved.
The church has a single nave and a log construction, is clad in boards and roofed with shingles. The chancel is elongated and has a three-sided end, and a hexagonal bell turret with a lantern rises above the nave. Inside are preserved a painting of St Giles from the 17th century, moved from a no longer existing chapel with that dedication, a painting of the Virgin Mary known as Betlejemka from the 15th century, a 17th-century figure of Jesus, Baroque altars and a stone font from the 18th century, and a copper holy water stoup from 1717.
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