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The church dedicated to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Bystrzyca-a historic, wooden church in Bystrzyca, in the Moravian-Silesian country, in the Czech Republic. It is a branch church of the parish of St. Catherine in Wandering.

The first small wooden church in Bystrzyca was built by local evangelicals in 1587. On March 21, 1654, he was taken away by a special commission. According to church visit from 1656 and 1679, he was not yet consecrated. In 1700, the altar after the Protestants was replaced by a new, imported from Frydek, which was replaced in 1783 for the altar from the Jesuit church from Cieszyn. At the end of the next century, the old Jesuit altar went to the chapel of "Castle" of the hunting Archduke Fryderyk Habsburg at Zadnim Groń in Wisła, and in the Bystrzycki church in 1907 a copy was set up.

In 1820, the church was founded, and in 1841 the vestibule was demolished after the evangelist Jan Roik hung in it. In 1781 the building's condition was alarming, the beams and the roof structure were completely rotten. The Cieszyn chamber reacted to this, providing wood for renovation, financed by the Church Fund. At the end of the nineteenth century, the church's condition was again bad. In 1893 the church was closed, and in January 24, 1897 a mass was held for the last time. The demolition wood was sold at auction.

In the years 1896-1899 a new church was built according to the design of Albin Prokop. A Renaissance triptych from 1588 depicting a group of crucifixes: the crucified Jesus and the Mother of God and Saint remained from the old church. John the Evangelist, located in the left side altar. The new main altar reminiscent of the old old one was made in 1907. An old bell from 1584 was preserved in the tower. The only nave is finished with a narrow three -sided presbytery, and is covered with a gable roof. The tower is square, indented into the nave, finished with a tower roof. Dormers look from the walls of the tower and the nave. The ends of the beams under the eaves and window frames were highlighted in color, and the interior is richly sculpted. Roofs covered with shingles, walls also cracked with shingles.